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French cuisine. Its features and traditions
What is famous about French cuisine? First of all, because it has been an example of excellence in cooking for centuries, than it remains to this day. If you think about the terminology we use when talking about cooking, it's possible to notice without any difficulty that a significant part of the words we have said is of French origin - omelet, meringue, restaurant, mayonnaise. All these words come from France, which completely settled in the usual household vocabulary.
What is cooking for the French? Do not think long - this is a real art, the achievement of its vertices requires considerable effort. That's why the French food is impeccable.
As for the kitchen itself, it is divided into three parts: regional, common and extremely refined. It is easy to guess that an extremely sophisticated cuisine is designed for the most revered persons - kings.
French cuisine has many distinctive features that immediately sharply distinguish it from others.
It's no secret that the French love wine very much. That is why it is often an integral component of French cuisine. However, only connoisseurs of culinary art know that the cuisine of France does not recognize any other wines, except dry and semi-dry. Speaking specifically about white wine, it should be more acidic. It is worth noting that the French cooks do not have clear concepts about what dish with what wine to cook - with white or red - for them the aesthetic appearance of the ready dish is very important. For these reasons, you will never see mollusks cooked with red wine - it gives them an unpleasant blue tint.
As for cognac, in France it is often replaced with other drinks - apple vodka (calvados) and armagnac (mainly in Gascony).
In addition to wine, the French prefer and sauces, of which there are a lot of about 3000 kinds. Indeed, nothing can make a cooked dish as exquisite and inimitable as a suitable sauce, and French culinary experts, as great connoisseurs of excellence, perfectly understand this.
Another distinctive feature of French cuisine is the widespread use of various kinds of spices. No, of course, France is not the only country whose cuisine prefers fragrant and fragrant additives, but the culinary specialists of this country use their spices - French. Among them are the leek, savory, rosemary, chervil and tarragon. Often, these herbs are not part of the dishes themselves - they are simply placed in bundles in a saucepan, and then seized - so any dish turns aromatic and saturated.
Omelette - this dish, which is densely included in our diet. As a rule, an omelet is prepared for breakfast, in a hurry. However, French cuisine provides for the preparation of an omelet, following a special tradition. There are several unshakable rules that every cook who cooks it should follow. First, to prepare an omelette, one frying pan should be allocated, on which nothing else will be prepared. It should be with absolutely flat bottom - this is second. And thirdly, the pan can not be washed - it is enough to simply wipe it with clean paper and salt, and then oil it.
And, finally, a little about the terminology, which is famous for French cuisine. Do you know what the word gourmet means? Of course you know - it's a person who understands all the gustatory subtleties of delicious dishes. You are right, but not really. In France, a gourmet is called a person who likes to eat delicious, and one who understands all the tastes of food is called "gurme". In other words, it is a connoisseur of culinary business. Believe me, not one self-respecting Frenchman will take offense, if suddenly you call him that.
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