Voici - Toute La France Pour Le Jour De La Bastille

Today is Bastille Day French pastries, I thought I'd dedicate the entire entry to the various foods of France. The French landscape is a wide and varied one. It has the wine region in the Southwest while the Southeast has the Alps and fertile fields of the Mediterranean basin. The North is a mixture of land and sea, evident in their various dishes. French cooking is the most varied, owing to the climate and landscape.


Provence provides France with the rich cooking of the local farms and a bounty rich sea, Here you can find olives, fish, tomatoes and onion. There's nothing like a briny, saffron infused bouillabaisse with fresh made, crusty bread. Another treat is pissaladerie. which is a Provencale pizza made with ground olives on toasted bread. Travel a bit north and you get the Alpine cooking, such as the Swiss influenced fondue and raclette . On the other side of southern France there is the Burgundy wine region where the best wines and champagnes are made. Here is also good cuisine, escargots, snails drenched in butter and parsley and the famed jambon persille ham cured with again parlsey. Burgundy is also known for its' rich potage bourguignonne, a vegetable soup flavored with bits of bacon and ham.

Northern France is loaded with history and a history of good food as well. It is here that the famous sea salt, sel du St. Michel is mined in beds near the Monastery of St. Michel in the English Channel. In neighboring Brittany crepes , a true symbol of French cuisine, have been made for centuries and originated there. There are gallettes or crepe stands all through the towns of the region. Brittany is also known for its' mussel or moules, steamed in white wine. Then there's the part of France that borders Germany in Alsace. The region is a mix of Gallic and Germanic foods.

France - it's not just the cultural capital of the world. It's also the culinary one too. Celebrate it . Discover the wonders of French cuisine aujourd 'hui.