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A day spent with Francoise Branget, French Deputy from Besancon, in the Doubs Department, Franche-Comté. She organized a cookbook put together by French members of Parliament, called "La Cuisine de la Republique," with regional recipes...April 24, 2011..Francoise Branget at home in her kitchen in Besançon, rincing and cleaning morilles, the wild mushrooms for the recipe of "croute aux morilles"...Photograph by Owen Franken for the NY Times..