Well, first of all I want to say that even if I'm french, I will not pretend to know all eating habits, there are variations throughout France, and also differences between the type of restaurant you choose. I believe that restaurants proposing quite "sophisticated food" are focusing their attention on food quality and freshness, while quantity is less important (the best is of course is to eat well and enough). The article says French portion sizes are notably smaller than American portions, that is certainly true. It always depends who you are comparing to: I don't think we have smaller portions than Italian for example.
But you're right, compared to England, from the little experience I have and without promoting stereotypes, France must have a better food, for some part because we are used to eat various types of food. For example, English people don't eat seafood a lot, while we often do so in France.
France is proud of this cooking tradition, and it's true that many restaurants are proposing delicious meals with a great variety of products. But on the other hand we can't either say we eat marvelous meals every day. If the question is to know if, generally speaking, we eat better, fresher food than other countries, the answer is yes, but keep in mind we also have less respectable habits. Nothing is all black or white. ;)

Well, I'm from France and I'd like to add some elements. For sure, what is said concerning our habits, our "food culture" is true. But we also have to face the other reality, which is less idyllic : French do snack, French don't cook a lovely and wonderful meal every day, many people eat sandwiches and sodas for lunch when they don't have time for something else, and more and more often eat ready-cooked dishes. We copyied American way-of-life on cooking too.

This sentence for example is far to be true : "If they do snack, the French often choose fresh fruits between meals." If you stop someone in the street, asking him to choose between an apple and a chocolate bar, I believe at least 80% will take the chocolate bar. It reminds me that our government had a wonderful idea a few years ago : in order to fight obesity, the decision was taken too replace snacks in vending machines by apples in schools. This was a triumph. Huge success. Most of those poor apples are still in the machines.

I don't know why France focuses the Chinese attention while other countries in Europe and in the World criticise the Chinese position. Maybe because our former president, Jacques Chirac, had really good relations with China (he didn't care much about the human rights issues by the way...). They may feel betrayed or something like that.

But anyway, it's really sad to see such message, no matter who is pointed.

I agree with Sylvain, the test is a bit strange : if only one person makes a mistake, the conclusion will be "they all disagree on this word", which is not a really objective vision.

It's true that on some words (I'm french too) which are not often used, we sometimes don't know. But I think it's the same for other languages which are using gender (spanish for example). For 99,9% of words, there is no problem at all ;)

Jeffrey > Yes, "De l'horreur!" means quite nothing ^^ "Quelle horreur !" is much better.