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lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
Carpe frites. Choucroute garnie (sauerkraut with sausages, salt pork and potatoes) Coq au Riesling (the local Alsace variant of coq au vin) Knack / Saucisse de Strasbourg. Kouglof (traditional brioche cake with almonds baked in a special bell shaped mould) Presskopf. Rosbif à l'alsacienne (horsemeat) Spätzle.
Culture of France. 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. In the 17th century, chefs François Pierre La ...
List of French cheeses. This is a list of French cheeses documenting the varieties of cheeses, a milk-based food that is produced in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms, which are found in France. In 1962, French President Charles de Gaulle asked, "How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?" [1]
Fino sherry is a classic apéritif.. An apéritif is an alcoholic beverage usually served before a meal to stimulate the appetite, and is usually dry rather than sweet.. Common choices for an apéritif are vermouth; champagne; pastis; gin; ouzo; fino; amontillado or other styles of dry sherry (but not usually cream or oloroso blended sherry, which is very sweet and
Volvic (mineral water) Categories: Drinks by country. French cuisine. Food and drink in France. Goods manufactured in France. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
English words of French origin can also be distinguished from French words and expressions used by English speakers. Although French is derived mainly from Latin, which accounts for about 60% of English vocabulary either directly or via a Romance language, it includes words from Gaulish and Germanic languages, especially Old Frankish. Since ...
An hors d'oeuvre (/ ɔːrˈdɜːrv (rə)/ or DURV (-rə); French: hors-d'œuvre [ɔʁ dœvʁ] ⓘ), appetiser[ 1 ] or starter[ 2 ] is a small dish served before a meal [ 3 ] in European cuisine. Some hors d'oeuvres are served cold, others hot. [ 4 ] Hors d'oeuvres may be served at the dinner table as a part of the meal, or they may be served ...