Is French Cuisine supposed to be world renowned?
French cuisine is weird. World renowned but very different to the American palette. A lot of cold stuff and weird meats.
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What do you consider weird meats?
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Pork rillettes, which are heavily salted.
Boudin noir, containing pig’s blood.
Saucisson, heavily salted salami.
Jambon de Bayon, heavily salted ham.
The French love their salt.
That's fair, although I thought that many of those dishes were classically done as a way to preserve the meat so it didn't go bad, similar to the use of spices to kill bacteria in warmer climates.
There are some French dishes I really like, and some I don't. I don't know how authentic they are either as I didn't really eat a lot of french food when I was in France. I would love to go back and try again.
I’m guessing the OP isn’t used to having so much cold meat being served with everything. As I said, French cuisine is ok, but not my favourite. They do really nice bread though.
shareIt's not my favourite either, and it depends on the region of France as well. Mediterranean French food is different than Parisian food I prefer Asian flavours, but again I don't know how authentic the food that I can get here is. I do love fusion food though. There is a restaurant by my house that is Thai Italian fusion and it's amazing.
shareI could never understand the fuss either. It’s ok, but I much prefer Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Thai, Mediterranean, actually, come to think of it, pretty much every other food, lol.
shareWhat Indonesian food do you like? They have so much variety I lost count.
shareRendang is my favourite.
Bubur Ayam is great.
Nasi Goereng of course.
Perkedel is scrummy.
Bakwan is good too.
Pepes Ikan.
I could go on all day tbh. Now I feel hungry, lol.
Wow you're able to eat those extremely hot and spicy rendang! I don't like it, the meat is most often too hard for my liking.
The other ones I believe they are Chinese food? Nasi Goereng is fried rice, bubur ayam is Chinese style porridge, the same as it's in Hong Kong or around the world. Bakwan is obviously Chinese, even the name is Chinese. Bak = pork, wan = round thing.
Pepes ikan is probably native. Never tried one.
As I get older, I can't handle hot & spicy like I used to. My wife is from Jakarta, so the Rendang she makes is very juicy - don't forget there are 17,500 islands in Indonesia, so there's a lot of diversity with their ingredients. Also, they were colonised by the Chinese, British, Dutch and Japanese, so once again, a lot of other influences in the mix.
Early lunch for me now, slurp!
Their fries are good. I had some with a hamburger today.
shareThose are really Belgian.
shareSo is Hercule Poirot but I count him amongst the French.
shareWow, he wouldn't like that!
shareBut he is dead, and I am alive! C'est vrai! I use my little grey cells to determine this! The history books are littered with recounts from the living upon those no longer around to defend themselves. Stratego, mon ami, do you not see this?
shareNo, they are freedom.
shareThe French are the originators of haute cuisine and nouvelle cuisine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_cuisine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_cuisine
It is world renowned but that said it comes down to individual tastes and preferences. Depending on what you mean by "weird meats" that tends to happen in most cultures. European cuisine is mostly peasant food or derived from peasant dishes so the cheapest cuts of meat and using every part of the animal.
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