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Gratin dauphinois (a traditional regional French dish based on potatoes and crème fraîche) Quenelle (flour, butter, eggs, milk and fish, traditionally pike, mixed and poached) Raclette (the cheese is melted and served with potatoes, ham and often dried beef) Soupe à l'oignon (onion soup based on meat stock, often served gratinéed with ...
A nouvelle cuisine presentation French haute cuisine presentation French wines are usually made to accompany French cuisine. French cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices from France . In the 14th century, Guillaume Tirel , a court chef known as "Taillevent", wrote Le Viandier , one of the earliest recipe collections of medieval France .
Ratatouille (/ ˌ r æ t ə ˈ t uː i / RAT-ə-TOO-ee, French: ⓘ; Occitan: ratatolha [ʀataˈtuʎɔ] ⓘ) is a French Provençal dish of stewed vegetables that originated in Nice and is sometimes referred to as ratatouille niçoise (French:). [1] Recipes and cooking times differ widely, but common ingredients include tomato, garlic, onion ...
This is a list of notable French breads, consisting of breads that originated in France. Baguette – a long, thin type of bread of French origin. [1] [2] The "baguette de tradition française" is made from wheat flour, water, yeast, and common salt. It may contain up to 2% broad bean flour, up to 0.5% soya flour, and up to 0.3% wheat malt ...
The American chef and food writer Julia Child, who lived in Marseille for a year, wrote: "to me the telling flavor of bouillabaisse comes from two things: the Provençal soup base—garlic, onions, tomatoes, olive oil, fennel, saffron, thyme, bay, and usually a bit of dried orange peel—and, of course, the fish—lean (non-oily), firm-fleshed ...
French onion soup (French: soupe à l’oignon [sup a lɔɲɔ̃]) is a soup of onions, gently fried and then cooked in meat stock or water, usually served gratinéed with croutons or a larger piece of bread covered with cheese floating on top.
In 1833, Marie-Antoine Carême described four grandes sauces (great sauces). [3] In 1844, the French magazine Revue de Paris reported: . Don’t you know that the grand sauce Espagnole is a mother sauce, of which all the other preparations, such as reductions, stocks, jus, veloutés, essences, and coulis, are, strictly speaking, only derivatives?
Although the cooking technique is probably older, the word mirepoix dates from the 18th century and derives, as do many other appellations in French cuisine, [3] from the aristocratic employer of the cook credited with establishing and stabilizing it: in this case, [4] Charles-Pierre-Gaston François de Lévis, duc de Lévis-Mirepoix (1699–1757), French field marshal and ambassador and a ...