The world-famous French cuisine, with its exquisite and luxurious taste, is popular in the stomachs of diners around the globe, and the French regard "eating" as one of the great pleasures of life, and believe that food is not only a kind of enjoyment, but also a kind of art. 16th-century French court already had a set of sophisticated food culture, and after the French Revolution, with the exile of the court chef, the court cuisine began to take root in the private sector.
French cuisine attaches great importance to the use of "ingredients", substandard materials, can not make good food is the maxim of French cuisine, and French cuisine, the characteristics of local ingredients, so that the taste of the north and south of the region is not the same, so "to what place to eat what food, what season to eat what food" is very important.
The essence of French cuisine is in the sauce (SAUCE), because of the careful attention to the ingredients, the French people use the sauce condiments, in order not to destroy the original flavor of the ingredients as a prerequisite for a good sauce can enhance the flavor of the food itself, texture, so how to mix the best sauce, all depends on the chef's skills! In addition, French cuisine is also known as the most expressive chef connotation of the cuisine, each dish for the chef, is an artistic creation.
French dietary characteristics
The dinner is more important. Love to drink wine, milk, black tea and so on. Go to restaurants to drink coffee and eat fruit and ice cream. Love to eat beef, lamb, chicken, fish, shrimp, eggs, all kinds of roasted intestines and so on. Love to eat all kinds of vegetables. Love to drink clear soup and eat fruits (especially love spinach).
Eating formal French restaurants to eat and drink, tableware, wine with the use of meticulous. Eat what kind of dishes with what kind of knife and fork, is very well studied, so each person in front of the two or three sets of selected. The same applies to wine glasses, as matching food and drink is an art here. Customarily, before the meal to drink an aperitif; dining process, if you eat meat with dry red wine; eat fish and shrimp a class of seafood, to drink dry white wine; after the meal, some people also like to drink a little brandy ground a class of strong wine. Each kind of wine used in different glasses. Look at the tall, short, fat and thin several glasses placed in front of the front, but also really evidence of not winning the wine? But the good thing is that this place does not pay attention to "deep feelings, a mouthful of boredom. Asked everyone to eat while chatting, wine just play a role in cheering and regulating the atmosphere, but frequently raise the cup, but are shallow to the point. Maintain a pleasant atmosphere at the table, but not too noisy.
Famous food
Bread
Step into the city of France, a bakery immediately reflected in the eyes of the neatly dressed clerk with a smile on his face, courteous reception of guests from all directions. French people have the habit of eating while walking, children go to school also like to take a long bread in hand, a big mouthful of food. Sometimes, they take the bread as a stick, chasing and stabbing, a unique interest. In France to buy bread to bring their own containers, because? The children have the most fun loading the bread, as they stuff the long bread into the hidden open bag one by one. They will be the long bag of bread, one by one into the hidden open coat pocket, as if nothing happened to leap home.
Snails
Paris has a lot to offer. In addition to the local cuisine, there is also a wide range of dishes from other parts of the world. But it is the traditional French cuisine that is most appreciated by the locals. For example, there are dozens of ways to eat French snails, which are famous all over the world. The French are said to eat more than 300 million snails a year, and because of limited production, its price has risen to dozens of francs per dozen, but sometimes demand still outstrips supply.
Foie gras
Another food that Parisians love to eat is foie gras. It can be eaten in a variety of ways and can also be made into foie gras sauce, which is an excellent accompaniment to meals. France is also the world's largest producer and consumer of foie gras, according to incomplete statistics, about two thousand tons per year. And the price is not expensive, good quality, to be sold to seven or eight hundred francs per kilogram.
Cheese
The wide variety of cheese is an essential part of Parisian life. It is said to have been invented by a priest more than 200 years ago and there are now more than 360 varieties.
Famous Dishes
French Onion Soup
Name:French Onion Soup
Ingredients
2,000 grams of beef
500 grams of onion
150 grams of salad oil
20 grams of salt
Smaller amount of hoisin
Lesser amount of sliced bread
Saucer a little.
Preparation
(l) Slice the onions and saute them in salad oil until brown.
(2) In a pot, stir in the onion and beef broth until it comes to a boil, add salt and pepper to taste.
(3) When the soup comes out, add bread slices to the soup pot and withdraw the salsa to serve.
Features Typical French flavor with a tangy taste.
White wine French snails
Ingredients:
Snails ............ .6-8 pieces
Lasagna crust . .2 sheets
White Portuguese wine . .20g
Yellow cream ........ .15g
Crushed garlic ......... A little
Butter ............ .40 grams
Whipped cream ........ .10g
How to do:
1. Heat a pot and fry the conch meat, prepare a pot of hot water to scald the pasta, put it in a plate, put another pot of melted cream, put minced garlic and saute it
2. Add the conch meat, the white wine, let the alcohol evaporate, add the cream and the whipped cream, put it in a plate, partially stuffed into the pasta, and surrounded by the rest of the white wine sauce can be
What to do:
To make the foie gras sauce, you need to add a little bit of cream, and then you need to add some whipped cream.
Seared scallops with foie gras
Ingredients:
Foie gras...3 slices
Seared scallops with foie gras .... .3 slices
Fresh scallops ........ .6 pieces
Asparagus ............ .6 sprigs
Onion ............ .100g
Carrots ........ .30g
Onion ............ .20g (sliced and fried hot with salt, twisted into a puree sauce)
Seasoning:
Sugar, salt, cornstarch moderate amount
Practice:
1. Fresh scallops slightly soaked, that is, soaked in ice water cooled rapidly, removed in the side of the cut in half deep, add green onions, ginger, salt, wine for about 10 minutes, and then fried until both sides of the yellow on the plate
2. asparagus take the part of the stamen, to Blanch the asparagus in salted water and use as a garnish
3. Remove the foie gras, pan fry, place on top of the scallops, drizzle with the sauce and garnish with the asparagus, and serve
Foie Gras with Orange
Ingredients:
Fresh foie gras... 2 servings
Fresh foie gras.... .2 servings
Pepper ............. A little
Salt, orange, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, brandy, mixed spices, moderate
Methods:
1. Fresh foie gras properly seasoned, mixed spices, brandy, marinated for 8 hours, slow grilled about 60 to 80 minutes
Take out the foie gras, wait until cooled, slices in a dish, an orange, take part of the pulp on a plate, orange juice, mixed with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, poured on the plate, and then put on the plate. Olive oil, apple cider vinegar, pour around the cold foie gras can be
French coffee culture
In the early 1920s, when France was still peaceful, art became a trend, and there were many cafes, which were crowded with writers. The writers would meet in the cafes to drink coffee and talk in their spare time. One famous writer, Paul Leautaud, called this period "the era of coffee culture".
When eating in a formal French restaurant, the use of cutlery and drinkware is meticulous. What kind of knife and fork to use for what kind of food is very well studied, so each person chooses two or three sets in front of him or her. The same applies to wine glasses, as matching food and drink is an art here. Customarily, before the meal to drink an aperitif; dining process, if you eat meat with dry red wine; eat fish and shrimp a class of seafood, to drink dry white wine; after the meal, some people also like to drink a little brandy ground a class of strong wine. Each kind of wine used in different glasses. Look at the tall, short, fat and thin several glasses placed in front of the front, but also really can not win the wine? But the good thing is that this place does not pay attention to "deep feelings, a mouthful of boredom. Asked everyone to eat while chatting, wine just play a role in cheering and regulating the atmosphere, but frequently raise their glasses, but are shallow to the point. Maintain a pleasant atmosphere at the table, but not too noisy.
France is a country with an excellent pedigree, both long history and splendid culture. It has a unique culture of food and drink, just about drinking or eating, also has its own set. Walking through the streets of Paris, you can almost see the five continents of various flavors of the restaurant signboards, coupled with France's elegant food culture, so that France in the food industry is one of the leaders.