Food in France

Good morning everyone, hopefully you are still as excited as I am on this tour. We are already at the half of our trip, time goes so fast. This week my colleagues and I are visiting France, with Paris known as the city of love. I have already been two times in this city and I can say it is highly recommended. Now, let us have a look at what the French people eat.

France is full of famous foods and is just like the Italian food respected all over the world. In history French food was heavily influenced by the Italian cuisine. It was in the 17th century that two chefs shifted French cooking away from its foreign influences and created France its own type of cuisine. A few of the world’s most famous foods/ingredients come from France. Sometimes the ingredients remain the same and they are just made famous by presenting them differently. The biggest part of the French cuisine is cheese and wine, each with a different role per region or per nationality.

When you have a baguette at home (a long, thin loaf of crusty bread) you have everything to start a French meal. The baguette is one of the most important parts of a French menu. Every person at

the table is expected to eat it. Sometimes the baguette is spread with melted cheese served with grilled food. This is called raclette.

Some regions in France are varying from cuisine. We can see in Brittany the main dish is thin pancakes (crêpes) with cider. In the Alsace region the most well-known dish is cabbage with little pieces of sausage (choucroute). The French people from the Loire River Valley have an exclusive meal with the Lotte fish that only can be found in this special river.

When you like seafood, you have to be on the coast of France. There is plenty of it such as mussels, oysters and shrimps and when you really want to eat like the French you have to try the escargots (snails) cooked with garlic and butter or the roasted duck. Hmmm…