French Food

Ms. French07/08/09

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French Cuisine

• French cuisine is a style of cooking derived from the nation of France. It evolved from centuries of social and political change. The Middle Ages brought Guillaume Tirel. The era of the French Revolution, however, saw a move toward fewer spices and more liberal usage of herbs and refined techniques, beginning with Francois Pierre La Varenne and further developing with Napoleon Bonaparte and other dignitaries, Marie-Antoine Careme. (wikipedia)

A Popular French Cuisine

Popular Food Eaten where Antoine de Saint-Exupery was Born!

• Fruit and young vegetables are popular in the cuisine from the Rhone Valley. Poultry from Bresse, guinea fowls from Drôme and fish from the Dombes lakes and mountain in Rhone-Alps streams are key to the cuisine as well. Lyon and Savoy supply high quality sausages while the Alpine regions supply their specialty cheeses like Abondance, Reblochone, Tomme and Vacherin. Mères lyonnaises are a particular type of restaurateur relegated to this region that are the regions bistro. Celebrated chefs from this region include Fernand Point, Paul Bocuse, the Troisgros brothers and Alain Chapel. The Chartreuse Mountains are in this region, and the famous liquor Chartreuse is produced in a monastery there. (Wikipedia)