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Essay On French Cuisine

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The French Cuisine:
A Review of the Literature

Lean Carlo Y. Quimson
H-136 Professor Mabuan March 17, 2016

The French Cuisine:
A Review of the Literature The French Cuisine as we all know is the one of the famous and one of the scrumptious food of all. All types of pastas and pastries are part of this cuisine. This cuisine started during the medieval time, it was influenced but the Italian cuisine. It was then developed during the 20th century to become the most haute cuisine; the most grand and high level of cuisine which means it is made with meticulous and careful preparation at an expensive price and accompanied by a high end wine as well. French cuisine really is fancy and is really better for reminiscing …show more content…

French cuisine doesn’t focus only on pasta but also on different pastries, deserts, main dishes and etc. The French people made sure that their cuisine has a vast selection of food; not only focusing on their famous french baguette and pasta, they made sure that their cuisine would be hearty and be enjoyed by others. It is also said that this cuisine has different varieties of main dishes and desserts. The following are said to be the not-so-famous but one of the best dishes in the said cuisine. According to wikipedia.com and saveur.com, the following are some of their famous food:
ALSATIAN MEAT AND VEGETABLE STEW (BACHEOFE) — A wine-simmered dish which meat and vegetables are cooked inside a dough sealed pot . It's an improvised meal of odds and it is slowly cooked for hours but it comes out in the oven with enormous flavor.
Tartiflette — is a French dish from the Savoie and Haute Savoie region of France. It is made with potatoes, reblochon cheese, lardons and onions. This modern recipe was inspired by a truly traditional dish called "péla": a gratin of potatoes and onions (without cheese) in a long-handled pan called a pelagic (shovel) in the Provence region of

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