French cuisine

Louisiana Creole cuisine originated in Louisiana. This type of Creole cooking uses influences from the general cuisine of the Southern United States and from populations present in Louisiana before the sale of Louisiana to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Louisiana Creole blends primarily French and Spanish cookings styles as well as West African, Amerindian, Hatian, German, Italian and Irish influences. In this cuisine, and from French influence, there is a large emphasis on complex sauces and slow-cooking. Later, people who emigrated, often with political or social self-exile, to New Orleans from the French and Haitian Revolutions and added more elegance and gallic influences to the cuisine. Despite its reputation for Cajun cuisine, the predominant type of New Orleans cooking is Creole. In the eighteenth century, Creole meant “born in Louisiana.” Many people in New Orleans adopted the term "Creole" for themselves in order to distinguish themselves from the influx of Americans whom they disdained. Beginning in the mid to late 1800s, mixed-raced began to be associated as Creoles as well as the whites. While Creole French is no longer spoken in New Orleans, the Creole culture lives on in the city’s architecture, local accents, and especially the food. With rich sauces, local herbs, red ripe tomatoes, and locally…

Julia Child was the first American to be in a cooking show about French cuisines. She also was the first person to have deaf captions on her T.V show, which was called The French Chef. Julia Child did many things that brought the average cook closer to fine French cuisine. Julia Carolyn Child (maiden name McWilliams) was born in Pasadena, California to John McWilliams and Julia Weston on August 15th, 1912. She was the oldest of 3 kids, born before John III and Dorothy Dean McWilliams. Julia…

hospitality that New Jersey is known for, and a cavalcade of terrific bars serving great beers, wines, and cocktails, it’s hard to go wrong during a night on the town in Somerset. Here is an abbreviated list of some of the best that this New Jersey has to offer. Restaurants Somerset’s restaurants range in cuisine from simple American faire to delights from the Far East and from Italian trattoria staples, to the cuisine of France. Regardless of which or the following Somerset restaurants you…

chef develops the menus and delegates orders to lower cooks. The system is reffered to as the Brigade system. Escoffier developed the brigade system and modeled it after the French army. The head of the kitchen is the chef de cuisine. This member of the kitchen oversees al menu preparation, ingredient ordering, staff, and cooking. Below the chef de cuisine is the Sous-chef. They are the second-in-command, and they are responsible for receiving orders and managing the kitchen. The next level down…

“Foie Gras” even the name sounds as though its left the french countryside for the weekend and taken a trip up the Chemin de Vézelay, it might even sojourn in Paris for a day or two until reaches the northern border, but sadly, the french delicacy is not as pleasant as its flowery title. Foie Gras, the pinnacle of french cuisine for over 3,000 years, has remained the status quo of luxury as well as many rendezvous, adorning the banquets of many socialites and even gracing the laminate table…

Calorie-free macarons. Vintage Chanel and Hermès handbags for ten euros in every store. A view of the Eiffel Tower from every street corner. And handsome French garçons buying me croissants, vying for my amour. To my simple seventh grade brain, a parent-free Parisian jaunt with my classmates sounded like a perfect oasis, with only a mere five years separating me from my dreams. I’m a planner, there’s no doubt about it. Months before the official itinerary was issued during the spring of my…

Alain Ducasse Alain ducasse was just a kid when he started to learn about food form his partnets.As a kid Alain love food and his partnets own a farm so he grow up with the tatse of how things work. But soon as he grow up he went to own many restaurnts in diffrent countrys with star rating and one of the youngest only at 33 yers old was given a 3 star rating. For some people alain is somebody people look up to because he’s created more for people to love like “restaurants, cook books,…

daughter and has no connection to the actual restaurant itself. After 28 years of Cafe Fanny’s service, it was sold to Cassandra Chen. Cafe Fanny is most famous for their Cafe Fanny organic granola chunks. Alice Waters partners with local farmers to get the best produce possible for her customers. Alice Waters went through a lot of hard work to get to where she is now. She attended the University of California in Berkeley, California, studying the French culture. As she got further along in…

Lionel Poilane, a famous French baker was born in 1945 into a family of bakers. He left school at 14 and began an apprenticeship with his father at No 8, rue du Cherche-Midi. The bread he is famously known for is called ‘pain Poilâne.’ They are round loaves made from stone-milled flour, salt, water and a starter which is leavened dough from a batch before which helps with the fermentation process. When Poilane took over the bakery he wanted to be ‘the archaeologist of my trade,’ so he spent time…

they would start. Workers yelling out “places, places everyone.” Then the cameraman yells out 5..4..3..2.. “Hello…” Julia Child changed many people's lives with her cooking, from her books, to her tv shows. Even though she wasn’t French her title was “The French Chef.” Julia was born on August 15, 1912 in Pasadena, California. Most people only know Julia for her cooking but she did have a life before her cooking career started. Julia went to Smith College to get her degree for writing. Her…