2. What is cuisine? Cuisine (French Word) – kitchen cuisine is a specific set of cooking traditional and practices often associated with specific culture. Now cuisine means (Style of Cooking). French Cuisine: French Cuisine is a style of cooking derived from the nation France French cuisine is considered to be one of the world’s most refined & elegant style of cooking, and is renewed fro such its classical (“Hante Cuisine ) And provincial style. Religion and Location of France : Location: Metropolitan France (Dark green on the European continent in the European union.
3. Capital : Paris Official Language : French, Alsatian, Basque, Breton, etc. Government : Semi-presidential Republic. President : Nicolas Sarkozy French Revolution : 1958 Area : 674843 km 2 Population : 68073482 Currency : Euro, CFP, Frank
4. France is Broadband (clockwise) By: France has 22 regions. 22 regions are subdivided into 96 Departments. 96 department is divided into 330 asrondissements. 330 asrondissements into 3883 cantons . 3883 cantons are divided into 36,569 communes.
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10. History Until about two decades ago , French cuisine had two clear cut branches i.e. La Grande Cuisine (or) Haute Cuisine and Provencal. Then with the changing tastes came Nouvelle Cuisine and Cuisine Minceur . LA GRANDE CUISINE Greeks provides the philosophy of Epicureanism . The Romans first made dining a Grandiose & Lavish affair and then with the Renaissance , gave it a touch of subtlety and elegance which is what they exported to France. The first man to attempt to establishing cooking as an exact science was a Frenchman, Tailleuant whose real name was Guillaume Pirel.
