Article: Chez gourmet

French natives Patricia and Laurent Zirotti and their two young boys have traded the glamour of the Cote d'Azur for Billings.

They're trading an average January high temperature of 55 degrees in Cannes for less than 23 degrees in Billings. Life along the Riviera for life along the Yellowstone.

The celebrity status of the Cannes Film Festival for the Strawberry Festival.

After eight years as a manager with France's Lucien Barriere Group of hotels and restaurants -- including working two years as deputy general manager at the 300-room Hotel Majestic and serving the food at the Cannes Film Festival -- Laurent Zirotti quit to manage a new Billings restaurant.

There, he will renew an old ...

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