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A crêpe or crepe (/ k r eɪ p / ⓘ KRAYP [3] or / k r ɛ p / KREP, French: ⓘ, Quebec French: ⓘ) is a dish made from unleavened batter or dough that is cooked on a frying pan or a griddle. Crêpes are usually one of two varieties: sweet crêpes ( crêpes sucrées ) or savoury galettes ( crêpes salées ).
The origin of the dish and its name is disputed. One claim is that it was created from a mistake made by a 14-year-old assistant waiter, Henri Charpentier, [2] in 1895 at the Maitre at Monte Carlo's Café de Paris.
Historians claim that the crepe has existed since 7000 BC. The crepe was quite thick, made with a batter mixing water and various crushed cereals. It was a simple porridge spread and dried out which was prepared on a hot stone then on a metal plate, "bilig" in Breton, then cooked in the hearth of the fireplace. Buckwheat is originally from Asia ...
Socca (unleavened crepe made from chickpea flour, common along the Ligurian Sea coast both in France and Italy) Soupe au pistou (bean soup served with a pistou (cognate with Italian pesto) of fine-chopped basil, garlic and Parmesan) Tapenade (puree or finely chopped olives, capers, anchovies and olive oil)
An assortment of petit fours, which are small confectioneries.Some petit fours are also savory. Religieuse is made of two choux pastry cases filled with crème pâtissière, [5] covered in a ganache of the same flavor as the filling, and then joined/decorated with piped whipped cream.
The history of the Jews in France dates back over 2,000 years. In the early Middle Ages , France was a center of Jewish learning, but persecution increased as the Middle Ages wore on. France was the first country in Europe to emancipate its Jewish population during the French Revolution , but despite legal equality anti-Semitism remained an ...
The term "nouvelle cuisine" has been used many times in the history of French cuisine which emphasized the freshness, lightness and clarity of flavor and inspired by new movements in world cuisine. In the 1740s, Menon first used the term, but the cooking of Vincent La Chapelle and François Marin was also considered modern.
Galette (from the Norman word gale, meaning 'flat cake') is a term used in French cuisine to designate various types of flat round or freeform crusty cakes, [1] or, in the case of a Breton galette (French: Galette bretonne [galɛt bʁətɔn]; Breton: Krampouezhenn gwinizh du), a pancake made with buckwheat flour usually with a savoury filling.