French Love of Food

The French love to savor their food and wine and don’t treat eating or drinking as an inconvenience. Perhaps this explains their long-established flair for preparing food and creating dishes, too. Eating is usually a social event in France, rather than a purely functional one.

French food has a reputation for being fancy, and some of it is, but in French households people tend to eat simply. Rather than piling food up on a plate, there will often be several simple courses comprising two or three ingredients. Usually a meal will be accompanied by a freshly bought baguette, and there may well be a cheese course before dessert.

Here are some of the more famous French dishes:

• Croque Monsieur: a classic toasted cheese and ham sandwich
• Quiche Lorraine: cheese and bacon egg flan popular worldwide
• Coq au vin: braised chicken in red wine, lardons and mushrooms
• Soupe à l’Oignon: French onion soup topped with gratinéed cheese
• Escargots de Bourgogne: baked snails served with garlic and parsley butter
• Clafoutis: a popular baked dessert usually packed with black cherries
• Crème Brûlée: dessert with a creamy custard base and hard top layer of caramel

Written by Rebecka