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cachet. lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque.
Culture of France. French wines are usually made to accompany French cuisine. French cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices from France. In the 14th century, Guillaume Tirel, a court chef known as "Taillevent", wrote Le Viandier, one of the earliest recipe collections of medieval France. In the 17th century, chefs François Pierre La ...
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first ...
v. t. e. In restaurants, à la carte ( / ɑːləˈkɑːrt /; French pronunciation: [a la kaʁt]; lit. 'at the card') [1] is the practice of ordering individual dishes from a menu in a restaurant, as opposed to table d'hôte, where a set menu is offered. [2] It is an early 19th century loan from French meaning "according to the menu".
A typical choucroute garnie. Baeckeoffe. Carpe frites. Choucroute garnie ( sauerkraut with sausages, salt pork and potatoes) Coq au Riesling (the local Alsace variant of coq au vin) Knack / Saucisse de Strasbourg. Kouglof (traditional brioche cake with almonds baked in a special bell shaped mould) Presskopf.
An entrée ( / ˈɒ̃treɪ /, US also / ɒnˈtreɪ /; French: [ɑ̃tʁe] ), in modern French table service and that of much of the English-speaking world, is a dish served before the main course of a meal. Outside North America and parts of English-speaking Canada, it is generally synonymous with the terms hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, or starter.
Bread, butter, ham (typically boiled), cheese (typically Gruyère ), pepper and salt. Variations. Croque madame. Cookbook: Croque monsieur. Media: Croque monsieur. A croque monsieur ( French pronunciation: [kʁɔk məsjø]) is a hot sandwich made with ham and cheese. The name comes from the French words croque ("crunch") and monsieur ("gentleman").
Media: Cordon bleu. A cordon bleu or schnitzel cordon bleu is a dish of meat wrapped around cheese (or with cheese filling), then breaded and pan-fried or deep-fried. Veal or pork cordon bleu is made of veal or pork pounded thin and wrapped around a slice of ham and a slice of cheese, breaded, and then pan- fried or baked. [1]