The exceptional modern French cuisine, including dishes such as tea-smoked salmon with sesame and pickled fennel, followed by heavenly lemongrass pannacotta with tarragon ice cream, makes for a special meal away from the Olympic crowds.

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And if you're looking to splurge at the end of the meal, look no farther than this Savannah cream cake.

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That's followed by Chili's pepperoni pizza meal with homestyle fries and chocolate milk, which packs 1, 120 calories, and Dairy Queen's fried chicken strip meal with fries, a slushy drink and an ice cream bar, with 1, 030 calories.

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For his last meal he ate two pints of mint chocolate-chip ice cream.

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The meal began with plump potato ravioli topped with dollops of pumpkin as light as whipped cream.

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She said she had been given only one meal a day, usually of stale rice, and was made to use an old ice-cream container as a toilet.

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