Food culture is integrated into French society. When French people are asked why French food is so good, the reason they most often give is that French cuisine comes from set of traditions that have been passed down for centuries. Today French cuisine has not only spread across France but also around the world. It’s now considered one of the best types of food in the world. French food is known for its rich tastes, which are often accompanied by delicate flavors and aromas. French cuisine is an important part of French history because it was shaped by French people throughout the centuries.
French cuisine reflects France’s geographic location, climate conditions, and social customs. The way French people eat has evolved over time but many recipes have existed forever. The earliest evidence of cooking dates back to about 250 000years ago when humans used fire to cook meat, but possibly even earlier – 1 million years ago – when they began using fire to cook vegetables as well. Over the millennia, French cuisine has continued to change and evolve. Not long before the French revolution (1789-1799), upper-class society dined on dishes like pigeon pie and roast beef.
French food wasn’t limited to French cuisine; it also included other foreign dishes by French people who traveled around the world and brought back exotic ingredients. French food was called ‘good’ because it wasn’t just delicious but also nutritious for those living in France. French people didn’t eat everything that French food entails today, such as pizza or pies, but they eat almost all types of French cuisine except for seafood until the French revolution – which is why French food is often associated with meat and dairy products today.
France’s location has had a huge impact on France’s cuisine because French people have access to natural resources like fruits and vegetables. France borders three different seas: the North Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, and the Mediterranean Sea. France produces a lot of fruits and vegetables because French growers have access to all three major fishing zones. French cuisine is known for being rich in spices, herbs, and flavorings.
French food is also very diverse compared to other countries around the world because there are many different resources that French people can use in cooking. French food isn’t just a single dish but a combination of dishes with sauces from different regions resulting from French society blending together. The French love their wine, especially white wine from the Rhone Valley and Bordeaux regions. The average French person drinks about 1 liter of wine per day. In fact, France was the biggest consumer of wine until 2009 when it was overtaken by Italy due to economic conditions.
French cuisine was more Roman than French. French food had more cream, butter and cheese. France quickly became the wealthiest province under the Romans. With French women comes French food. Arriving with Columbus on his second voyage to America, Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci wrote of an island he called “Mona” where men were large and tall, living off a diet of oysters, clear soups and bread made from corn which they ate without even cooking it first! But back to France: Many French towns claim to be the birthplace of French cuisine as we know it now.
This is because so much history has been lost in wars and invasions that there are no recognized records of who inherited what recipes from whom up until modern time which makes French cuisine seem like an original French idea. Instead, we can only know the history of French food as far back as written records go and how it evolved from Roman times to now. Many French chefs today do not even believe French food has had a specific time period where it was truly French because there were so many different influences on what those before them ate and cooked.
The revolution in France changed the way French people eat forever. The very existence of a professional industry dedicated to cooking is a modern one. Before it was just done at home for family members or nobles who wanted something fancier than just their personal chef made for them – but nothing that involved money being thrown around. Chefs were commoners until Auguste Escoffier. French restaurants were not common until the French Revolution about 200 years ago, when French cooking began to break away from home kitchens and French chefs became professionals.
The French Revolution was a direct consequence of French food having gone through so many different types of influences for so long that by 1789 there had become no cohesive way to define one type of cuisine over another just by looking at it. The French revolution changed all that because France became a democracy and people started to see themselves as part of one country rather than citizens divided according to their social classes which included their food habits.
Now more than ever before, France got involved in politics through wars with other countries; modern political parties formed; newspapers were printed; new types of food spread quickly between social classes; French food became French. The French empire also had an influence on French cuisine. French people were among the first to explore outside of Europe, bringing back ingredients from across the world to France where they are adapted in French style with French flavors and French cooking techniques.
It was not until after World War II that American influences on French food started to be seen, then it moved into different parts of Asia during the 1970’s and 1980’s. This had more impact than just changing how French food is eaten by its people today, it changed how France itself was perceived globally because its people were able to look past their borders for new ideas about their own culture which led to a shift in world politics due to an increase in globalization overall. French food changed French people. French people changed French food.
French food changed the world. French cuisine today is a result of all previous influences and will continue to evolve as we go forward; France has more political influence than ever before in its history which will lead it to become even more involved in global politics and flow of culture and ideas through international travel and business, like how French foods came into France from across the world and were adapted to French styles and soon became French by default due to these changes in their own country’s history.
