The history of French cuisine is as long as its civilization. A dish, or a cooking method, seems to make people smell the long and far-reaching breath of a national culture. Let me introduce French food culture to you. Let's have a look together.

French food culture

French cuisine as a whole includes these aspects: bread, cakes, cold food, cooked food, meat products, cheese and wine. These are indispensable contents in the French diet, among which the French are most proud of wine, bread and cheese.

French people are used to western food, romantic French food and romantic French food, and there are many details worth savoring.

French cuisine is famous for its delicious taste, with a wide variety of dishes and unique cooking methods. Almost all European cuisines are cooked by the French, because the chefs employed by the first-class hotels or restaurants in Europe are mostly French. Their attention to diet is comparable to that of us in China, and they even take diet as art, which is better than ours.

French cuisine has the characteristics of wide selection of materials, fresh materials, beautiful dishes and various varieties. The dishes are generally raw, and there is a habit of eating lettuce. In seasoning, wine is heavier, and different raw materials should be used with corresponding wine. Their taste is rich, tender and spicy. Pork, beef, mutton (tender), chicken, fish, shrimp, eggs and all kinds of braised intestines, vegetarian dishes and fruits are their favorite foods, especially pineapple. Scaleless fish is excluded from the table and is an unwelcome food. When having a meal, the cold dish is whole meat, which is eaten while cutting. The famous dishes are: Marseille fish soup, sparrow meat soup, Paris lobster, baked snail, red wine pheasant, Shapiro chicken, chicken liver steak, oyster cup, Malinggu chicken and so on.

French food can't be described as delicious, nutritious or rich. Apart from paying attention to ingredients, cooking time, collocation of dishes, freshness of selected materials and diversified dishes and cooking methods evolved in different regions, French food can be said to be superior to other western foods in its delicacy, rationality and artistry.

French people also pay special attention to the mood of eating, such as exquisite tableware, faint candlelight, elegant environment and so on. Most of the larger restaurants are magnificently decorated. Some stores still have luxurious furniture of Louis XIV in the 16th century, exquisite silver tableware, crystal cups and other expensive and gorgeous tableware. Other restaurants focus on art collections, and the famous paintings on the walls are real treasures, not far-fetched general art paintings that decorate the facade. Some restaurants also put their collection hobbies in the store to enjoy the collection with their guests. If the hotel has a short history, they can also find ways to fill it with all kinds of flowers, which is an excellent scene to blend with delicious food.

French food is directly related to the French people's requirements for life and aesthetics. The French also give philosophical meaning to diet, believing that personal diet should conform to their respective education and social status, and regard the meal at the same table as an elegant pleasure and enjoyment of connecting feelings and making friends. One is called? World-class dieter? Some people once said:? Feel the dining atmosphere on the dining table, and you can judge the overall personality of this country's citizens. ? Looking at the delicious food and dining style of the French people, we can't help but think of the strings of notes flowing under clayderman's fingers, which are romantic and meaningful, and let you fully appreciate the fragrant artistic atmosphere of French cuisine.

In France, dinner time is usually around 8 pm, and some even later. When you arrive at the restaurant, all the warm and elegant atmosphere carefully designed by experts will infect you immediately. The tables and chairs in the dining room are well placed, which not only facilitates dining, but also caters to the consumption psychology of different customers, and the space should be fully utilized. The service of French restaurants is in place, not only to provide satisfactory service for first-time customers, but also to remember the names of old customers and their favorite table positions. Whenever these people come here for dinner, they take the initiative to call the guests' names, which makes people feel cordial.

what's the match between every dish and drink in a French meal? Art? . An aperitif before a meal is indispensable, and the types and even colors of wine during a meal are very particular. Order meat with red wine, eat seafood like fish and shrimp with white wine, and some people like to drink a little brandy after dinner. Each wine uses a different glass.

the menu of French food is very simple. There are only a dozen main courses, but they are all beautifully made. The order of ordering is: the first course is usually cold dish or soup, although there are many varieties on the menu? First course? You can choose, but you can only choose one. Before serving, a loaf of bread will be served. After eating, the waiter will help you remove the plate and serve the second course. The second course is soup. Delicious French soups include thick broth, light vegetable soup and delicious seafood soup. The third course is the main course in a meal, which is the most developed dish in French cuisine. It is often made delicately and fastidiously, which makes diners unforgettable. What are the most kinds in dinner? Chicken steak, fish steak, steak, pork chop. This so-called steak is the clean meat with bones and thorns removed, and then poured with a unique juice, which is delicious and convenient to eat. The so-called big meal refers to the things that ordinary people often eat with some careful and emotional food, while the delicacies such as sea cucumber, abalone and pangolin are hard to find in French cuisine. The well-known onion soup in French cuisine is a thick soup made of cheap onions, cheese and bread slices. Many diners who like French food come for onion soup. Throughout the dining process is wine, mainly wine and champagne, which is a classic pen in French dinner. There are many rules for the selection and collocation of wine, for example, white wine should be served with seafood and red wine with red meat.

The last course is dessert, and the French people's earnest, meticulous and artistic feelings devoted to life are all dissolved in this last dessert. French desserts are considered to be unique in the world. Fragrant and soft desserts make the end of the meal perfect and memorable.

after dinner, have a cup of espresso, eat one or two fruits and an ice cream, which is the enjoyment after a hard day's work. Drinking wine, cider, mint wine, and eating baked snails, goose liver, black mushrooms and lilies are the pleasure of the French.

Chrysanthemums, azaleas and all yellow flowers and paper flowers are taboo in diet customs. I also have an aversion to dark green, thinking that these colors are unlucky, so we should pay attention to the decoration and paving of French restaurants. When dining, French guests generally don't welcome someone to deliver towels.

French cheese enjoys a high reputation in the world. It is made of milk and goat's milk (including goat's milk), and it has semi-solidified state, solidified state and dry block, and there are hundreds of different kinds of cheese because of its different colors and tastes.

In addition, coffee culture is a major feature of France.

The cafe fashion in Paris has lasted for centuries. As early as 1686, the merchants from Sicily, Italy, came here to set up the first coffee shop. Since then, the coffee shops in Paris have been thriving, but it has been nearly 21 years since its rapid development, which not only benefits from the world famous cultural city of Paris, but also lies in the rise of tourism. Some people say that you can never say that you have been to Europe until you get to Paris, and you can't say that you have been to Paris until you enter a cafe in Paris. There are about 11,111 cafes in Paris, and there are cafes almost everywhere in and outside Paris, such as sidewalks, squares and gardens, and the business is booming. Cafe is like the soul of Paris, and almost all kinds of social activities appear in it. Lovers meet, chat, do business, gamble and play games, all of which have become the sights in the cafe? Cafe in Paris has become a media place in the city and a bond of family communication. Another reason why cafes have become fashionable in Paris is that it is not expensive to drink coffee in cafes. You can sit in it for hours for only 1 francs, even at night. In order to attract customers, most cafes in Paris have become smoke-free halls. Therefore, many smokers smoke in the street.

There is another major feature of the cafes in Paris, that is, colorful, unique, mobile, exotic, audio-visual, restaurant-style, luxurious, fixed, humble, English, German, authentic French and so on. There are many cafes in Paris, but you can't find the same style. Here, people advocate the harmony between man and nature, so elegant wooden decoration is very popular. Parisians are very particular about which kind of people go to which kind of cafes. If you are dating your lover, please come to the Crown Prince Cafe, because it has the most emotional color. If you are a tourist and need to enjoy the most Parisian dishes, please come to the Eiffel Cafe, because you can enjoy the panoramic view of Paris from the wall screen and taste the most famous dishes. In a word, cafes in Paris have become a characteristic culture. People don't have to go to a coffee shop for the purpose of drinking coffee, but perhaps for viewing, trading or dating. Cafes in Paris have gone far beyond the meaning of drinking coffee.

Modern French cuisine is a continuation of traditional French cuisine. With the improvement of living standards and quality of life, modern French people advocate nutritious food to avoid all kinds of cardiovascular diseases. Especially for women, the purpose of nutritious food is to stay young forever.

However, no matter how modern the society is and how avant-garde people's thoughts and behaviors are, France has never abandoned its traditional and classical food art. In order not to degrade the taste buds of the next generation, the government regularly invites dietetic experts to primary schools for taste examination and training, so that children can have a normal taste, fully enjoy the long-standing and well-known French cuisine, and try to keep the traditional cooking methods in the food production process.

Bread is the main accessory in French cuisine. In the 1971s, in order to improve efficiency, bread manufacturers used large machines to produce bread, which destroyed the original taste of bread. The public objected and the government ordered the manual production to resume. Until today, French bread has become a proper noun, which is inseparable from the French love and maintenance.

introduction of French cuisine

1. French classic cuisine? Foie gras

In China, French cuisine represents exquisite, romantic, elegant and expensive, which is really valuable. A meal may reach about 7,111 yuan for one person, and the price depends entirely on the types of dishes. Because French cuisine attaches great importance to the freshness of raw materials, most French restaurants in China use the way of eating by air, which attracts many gourmets and also causes the high price of French cuisine.

second, French classic food? Black fungus (truffle) truffle? (Truffe), aka? Black fungus? , is a kind of mushroom that grows underground. In France? Black diamonds? Truffles with a good name are not mushrooms strictly, because they are parasitic on the roots of trees and buried deep in the earth, so it must be found by well-trained dogs with a keen sense of smell. Truffles are very sensitive to temperature and humidity. If they are not handled properly, it only takes three days. Thin? A tenth. Losing weight means that the money is gone, which often makes bosses feel distressed. Therefore, in order to preserve truffles, they are opened, for example, if someone puts truffles in a sealed rice barrel or in a room with eggs. The result was an unexpected surprise. Rice and eggs fully absorbed the smell of truffles, and at the same time kept the moisture of truffles from evaporating quickly, creating another flavor of truffles. The best taste season of truffles is from December to March, and Bordeaux wine can be drunk with ordinary red wine.

3. French classic food? Caviar

The most widely known of the three great cuisines in the world? Caviar? Actually, it is salted fin fish eggs. This famous food, as early as the 13th century, was hailed as the best in the world. Rumor has it that in a Danish newspaper at that time, it was mentioned that a local factory received an order to make finfish caviar, which should be the earliest record of caviar.

besides finfish, caviar also uses materials such as trout, sturgeon, cod and herring. Among them, the snakehead is the most special, because its growth place is limited to the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. Caviar can be matched with any material without losing its delicious flavor, whether it is cold dishes, wine, cakes, etc., and caviar can be combined into a wonderful dish. If caviar is really the most commonly used place, it is probably an appetizer with champagne!

The characteristic of French cuisine in France is that it is juicy and smelly, and you must have exquisite tableware and picturesque dishes to satisfy your vision. The fragrant wine meets the sense of smell; The delicious taste of the entrance satisfies the taste; Wine glasses and knives and forks are staggered in a quiet and serene space, which is the highest enjoyment of touch and taste. This attitude of combining the five senses has developed a deep and dedicated taste.

In recent years, French cuisine has been constantly improving, and the traditional classical dishes have been pushed to the so-called Nouvelle Cuisine, and they have been applied to each other. The modulation method pays attention to the coordination of flavor, naturalness, skill, decoration and color. Due to the different geographical location, French cuisine is popular in animal husbandry in northern France, which contains many regional dishes. All kinds of cream and cheese make people's forefinger move. The south is rich in olives, seafood, garlic, fruits and vegetables and spices.

Dietary characteristics in different regions of France

(1) BURGUNDY region

Sweet red wine

Burgundy region produces a large number of red and white wines, snails, chickens and mustard sauce. The famous dishes are braised chicken with red wine, stewed beef with red wine, and grilled snails in Burgundy. France is one of the proud producing areas of wine, champagne and brandy in the world, so the French are very particular about the collocation and use of wine in catering. For example, drink a light taste wine before meals; When eating salads, soups and seafood, drink white wine or bogui wine; Drink red wine when eating meat; And drink a little brandy or sweet wine after meals. In addition, champagne is often used in celebrations, such as getting married, having children and celebrating.

(2) NORMANDY

Delicious seafood

Normandy produces a lot of seafood, butter, whipped cream and apples. The more famous dish is braised seafood in Normandy. In addition, adding apples to many dishes has become the biggest feature of this area.

(3) foie gras

a specialty of CLSACE Kansas

The most famous foie gras in France is produced in this area. The more famous dishes are cheese bacon egg tart and pickled cabbage mixed bacon.

(4) The delicious steak in PROVENCE

Because it is close to the Mediterranean and Italy, its dishes are more Italian. A large amount of olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, fish and various spices are often used in the cooking and manufacturing process of dishes. Well-known dishes are Marseille seafood and Pufanxi frog legs and so on.

French cuisine prefers beef, veal, mutton, poultry, seafood, vegetables, snails, truffles, foie gras and caviar. In terms of ingredients, a lot of wine, butter, whipped cream and various spices are used; When cooking, the heat plays a very important role. For example, beef and mutton are usually cooked until six or seven minutes are cooked. Seafood should be cooked properly, but not over-cooked, especially in the production of Sauce, which takes a lot of effort. It uses a wide range of materials, whether it is Stock, wine, fresh cream, butter or various spices, fruits, etc., and it is very flexible.

(5), famous French Cheese

French cheese is also very famous.