Sunday, May 29th, 2005
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Re: What's your favourite European food ?
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Originally Posted by Der Elsasser
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It's easy. See..
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Originally Posted by Mynydd on Monday, April 18th, 2005
I voted for Spanish and French ( I'll make no comments here this time  ).
They are the only two cuisines that I consider well above all others in quality and variety. |
That was then, but now..
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Originally Posted by Mynydd on Sunday, May 29th, 2005
In the end, my dear Duchemin, France's cuisine is somehow a dellusion, a mirage. Its success is due to what has been taken from the Occitan cuisine and made pass as "French".
Also, it is known that during the Napoleonic invasion many of the cookbooks from Spanish monasteries were stolen by the French, and later published in Paris as French. There was one wife of a French marshall who did not even bother with modifying the ingredients to adapt them, and published them as her own recipes.
Ahh.. la France.. |
The small print in my first post was that I actually considered Spanish and Occitan cuisines superior. 
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Great choice ! 
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