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Smithsonian Associates offers a slate of engaging and entertaining programs this month
Mar 1, 2021 Last March, Philippe Faure-Brac, one of France's best-known sommeliers, shuttered his Paris restaurant, Bistrot du Sommelier, as France entered its first national COVID-19 lockdown. Two weeks later, Faure-Brac, who had just turned 60, was diagnosed with COVID. Following a week of fever, gastric problems and fatigue, a new chapter of the illness opened. "When I started eating again," he recalled, "I realized I had a problem." Like most sufferers of relatively mild cases of COVID, Faure-Brac lost his sense of smell, and consequent...