{"id":2696,"date":"2018-11-07T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.frenchlanguagesalon.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2020-01-21T21:32:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:32:50","slug":"what-is-french-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchlanguagesalon.com\/cuisine-recipes\/what-is-french-cuisine\/","title":{"rendered":"What is French Cuisine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make a long story short, there is not ONE <strong>French cuisine<\/strong>. We would be better off speaking about <strong>French gastronomy<\/strong>, which includes all of the French cuisines. Each one comes from a different region, with both it&#8217;s differences as well as common characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>If you ask a <strong>chef<\/strong> what French gastronomy is, he will often answer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The art of making a complex meal with simple ingredients&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, few <strong>French recipes<\/strong> include a lot of ingredients and even fewer have unknown or atypical ones. <strong>French chefs<\/strong> want to make a dish that fills the stomach and excites the taste buds. In brief, meals that you enjoy with pleasure while also satisfying the appetite.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s speak about French cuisines with examples per region (North to South):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the North, the <strong>Carbonnade<\/strong> is the king of meals. A stew of local veggies, with a nice piece of beef and cooked in beer.<\/li>\n<li>In Britain (West), <strong>Crepes<\/strong> of course! Sweet or salty, using a wheat or buckwheat flour base, often made with Nutella or ham.<\/li>\n<li>In Lorrain (East), <strong>Quiche Lorraine<\/strong>, a salty tart covered of migaine (mixture of eggs and cr\u00e8me fraiche) and bacon.<\/li>\n<li>In Provence (South-East), the <strong>Bouillabaisse<\/strong>: a fish soup served with garlic croutons and potatoes.<\/li>\n<li>In the South-West: the <strong>Cassoulet<\/strong>, a white bean based copious meal with meats (duck and pork).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are some typical <strong>French courses<\/strong>: all very different from each other, using simple ingredients for a delicious result every time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make a long story short, there is not ONE French cuisine. We would be better off speaking about French gastronomy, which includes all of the French cuisines. Each one comes from a different region, with both it&#8217;s differences as well as common characteristics. If you ask a chef what French gastronomy is, he will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[20,37,42],"tags":[314,335],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/frenchlanguagesalon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/110718-frenchfood.jpg?fit=2000%2C1038&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kt18-Hu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2021,"url":"https:\/\/frenchlanguagesalon.com\/artist-spotlight\/paul-bocuse-the-pope-of-gastronomy\/","url_meta":{"origin":2696,"position":0},"title":"Paul Bocuse: The Pope of Gastronomy","date":"January 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"France is the country of Haute Cuisine and as such, French people know to respect its representatives, the Chefs. 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