Food and Drink
French Cuisine

French cuisine is a style of cooking originating from France, having developed from centuries of social and political change.

1. What type of soup is a julienne?
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2. The Italians and Americans call them zucchini what do the French and the British call them?
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3. At what stage of the meal would you eat a charlotte?
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4. Which region of France is the original home of Calvados?
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5. What type of delicious food is the French langues de shat?
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6. What name is given to a pan of hot water which stands on top of the cooker and in which other pans stand, so that their contents will cook gently?
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7. What is Coquille St. Jacques a fancy name for?
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8. What is the head waiter in a French restaurant called?
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9. How is the drink served when it is described as frappé?
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10. What name is given to a ham and cheese sandwich dipped in beaten egg and deep-fried?
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11. When food is cooked en croûte, what does it mean?
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12. What is the difference between pommes and pommes de terre?
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13. What have you ordered if a thin pancake is cooked in butter, sugar, orange juice and Curaçao, and then flambéed at your table?
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14. Petit fours means literally 'little ovens', but what are they?
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15. What is the main ingredient of a soufflé?
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16. In a French restaurant, what describes a dish that is specially recommended that day?
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17. Bénédictine has been made by the Bénédictine order since the 16th century. On what is it based?
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18. At what stage of the meal would you eat a cassoulet?
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19. What is a sorbet?
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20. How is boeuf bourguignon cooked?
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21. What type of stew is a navarin?
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22. What is the most famous guide to the best restaurants in France called?
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23. What is a clafouti?
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24. If you ordered carré d'agneau, what would be served?
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25. François-René de Chateaubriand was a novelist, poet and politician. What type of food was named after him?
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