TOU3003 Dining Cultures

and Etiquette
Country:French
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Table Of Contents

1. Types of traditional food 5. Daily Menu

1.1 Types of traditional beverages
2. food practices and habits
3. Eating cultures, habits and
customs
4. traditional events
5.1About the family
5.2Daily menu
6. Dining etiquette
1. Types of traditional food :
• Baguette 法棍
• Foie Gras d’Oies 鵝肝
• Truffe Noir 黑松露
• Fromage 奶酪(eg. Camembert 卡芒貝爾乾酪 )
• Escargot 蜗牛
• Confit de canard 油封鴨
• Tête de Veau 小牛头肉
• oyster 生蚝
• scallop
• Aligot appies 起司馬鈴薯泥
• Croissant 可頌
 Types of traditional
beverages :
1. Soup
• Soupe à l'oignon 洋葱汤
• Bouillabaisse 馬賽魚湯

2. champagne 香檳
• Moet & Chandon 酩悅香檳
• Blanc de Noir 黑中白香檳

3. wine 葡萄酒
• Beaujolais 薄酒萊葡萄酒
• Chablis 沙布利白葡萄酒

4. Beer 啤酒
• Kronenbourg 1664 BLANC 法國可倫堡白啤酒
Food Practices and habits
• Spices
• commonly used spices have thyme, rosemary, cinnamon, parsley, citrus,
nutmeg, saffron, clove and so on more
• pepper is the most common almost every dish will use,
• not MSG and Rarely coriander
• moreover ingredients choose to use more than wine ,there will be a
lot of cream and spices to cook delicious food
• Breads are common in most meals especially breakfast and dinner.
The types of bread range from the simple to the elaborate.
Food Practices and habits
• FoieGras
• is a popular and well-known delicacy in French cuisine
• Its flavor is described as rich, buttery, and delicate, unlike that of an
ordinary duck or goose liver.
• is sold whole, or is prepared into mousse, parfait, or pâté, and may
also be served as an accompaniment to another food item, such as
steak.
• French law states that "Foie gras belongs to the protected cultural
and gastronomical heritage of France
Food Practices and habits
• Meats are often the center of attraction in French meals.
• Beef, pork, poultry, game meats, and charcuterie (ham, sausage, and cold cuts)
are all favorites.
• Vegetables – the freshest and the ripest – are carefully picked and
prepared. These are then cooked into side dishes or as part of the
main course. Favorite vegetables include lettuce, leafy greens,
tomatoes, onions, string beans, eggplant, carrots, zucchini, and
several others. Truffles and other locally grown fungi and mushrooms
are also used.
 Traditional event foods-

 Galette des rois

-A food for ate of worship in christmas.
-Round meringleaf,tundish with almond cream stuffing, the middle will hide a little thing.
-eat the cake in the porcelain will be lucky

 Nouveau Salade Nicoise

-Ingredients include fresh vegatables,boiled eggs aand tuna
-it taste fresh aand delicious
-easy to produce satiety,it is suitable for consumption at a picnic
Eating cultures, habits and
customs
Fixed meal times and no snack
• The French will have three meals a day.
• They think eating is important, so they will have fixed meal time.
• Children may have a small snack, like a piece of fruit or a cake after
school or about 4 hour.
• Adults usually don’t have snack
Lunch is more important than dinner
• They think the main meal of a day is lunch
• Dinner is just for decrease the afterthought
• So, they will take more time to have lunch.
• Evening working, they will always use an hour at noon to have lunch.
 Less children menu
• The children will eat the same food with adult.
• They will learn a lot of knowledge about healthy habits in school
• The school will provide the healthy meal to the children too.
• Many French will care about the healthy habit
No Rush Required
• Many French restaurant start serving at 8:30
• The French customer will spend a few hours at the table to finish the
dinner
• Maybe they will finish at 10:30 or 11:00 , it is not uncommon.
• the French also will spending a few hours to enjoy their lunch.
 Talk Softly in Restaurants
• In the French restaurant, people will talk softly and quiet.
• Conversations usually transpire in low tones
• They will have their lunch or dinner in the quiet place.
• So, don’t talk loudly in the French restaurant, it is not polite.
Cheeses is very important
• Cheeses are among the things the French can’t live without.
• It is a part of a traditional French meal
• They will eat it after the main course and before the dessert
• It is often served with bread
• In France, there are around 500 different types of cheeses
Breakfast (le petit déjeuner )
• The French breakfast is usually cheap price.
• It usually a bread with jelly or jam
• Some coffee, tea or hot chocolate

Lunch (le déjeuner)

• starts with the appetizers, usually a salad or soup
• followed by the main course and then the dessert.
• Now moved to only one hour of lunch break
Dinner(Le dîner )
• It the time for the family get together and talk about the day
• Similar with the lunch, starting at appetizers ,ending with dessert.
• But cheese may be inserted after the main course
• Main course : usually meats or fish, served with vegetables, pasta,
potatoes, or rice.
• The cheese: sometimes will replaced with yogurt
• Dessert: a fresh fruit, or a delicious pastry for special occasions.
• Bread and wine is also present during the dinners.
 Traditional event-Menton Lemon Festival
 The Menton Lemon Festival Created in
Menton in 1934
 Is a unique event in the world which draws
over 230,000 visitors every year.
 To Celebrate the lemon harvest make a lot
of things with lemon.e.g
castle,animal ,church
 Lemon flower parade attract a lot of people
 Also ,drum playing instruments ,jump
samba ,very lively
 Traditional event foods-
Mushroom and Leek Galette
-Is a relatively simple food
-can be made free of different shapes,salty and sweet
-the cake have mushroom and leeks
Caneaten with salads for lunch or dinner
Cabillaud
-of the cod is a rare delicious ingredients,traditionally fired or baked more
-with vegetable,there are also use honey and raw to cook .
Food Practices and habits
• French people usually use pan-fried ,gratin and stewed these three
methods ,stewed is using a long time to cook the food. In the french
restaurant, the meat red wine stewed beef is very simple.
• gratin is one of the most commonly used french cooking
methods ,people often eat baked snail. This is the traditional food in
french.
• The pan-fried also is important in french. This is the easy method
cook in french cusisine. The fried foie gras is the famous dishes of
french.
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 Daily Menu

A family of four who are live in French

Father (37 years old)
Mother(35 years old)
Son(12 years old)
Daughter (12 years old)
Breakfast
• For Adult • Salad
• Coffee Health
Easy to find Easy to find
refreshing
• Croissant
Easy to find
Well-known
Breakfast
• For child
• Hot chocolate
Easy to find
• bread rolls with chocolate filling
yummy
 French Lunch
For husband and wife
Appetizer: for adult
Grains , prawns and avocado, with sesame
vinaigrette (鮮蝦酪梨穀物沙拉佐芝麻油醋)

Avocado → unsaturated fatty acid & cellulose

 predict heart disease
 cancer lower cholesterol

Grains → dietary fibre

 good for stomach and intestine

salad and sesame vinaigrette → sour and sweet

 whet the appetite
 French Lunch

For husband and wife

Main course:
wild mushroom risotto (雜菌意大利飯)
Ingredients: chicken stock, thickened cream, butter,
parmesan cheese
 Creamy & full-bodied
 satisfy their appetite
 French Lunch
For husband and wife

Beverage:
Château de Lagorce - Bordeaux Rouge AOC
Well-known
Variety of tastes (strong blackcurrant ,pepper
and licorice scent)
 French Lunch

For two kids

Appetizer:
Cream of chestnut soup (奶油栗子湯)
→ chestnut rich in protein & carbohydrate
 enhance physical development.
 For two kids
Main Course:
parmesam cheese of tomatoes spaghetti (帕
瑪森起司蕃茄義大利麵)
French Lunch Tomatoes → Calcium, phosphorus, iron
 Enhance growth and development of children
Parmesam cheese
 Smell Fragrant & agreeable
French Lunch
For two kids

Beverage:
liquor, orange juice and cola
(無酒精飲料,橙汁及可樂)
Dinner
• Aperitif for husband and wife
Beaujolais tends to be a very light-
bodied red wine, with relatively
high amounts of acidity.
is the best to start our dinner.

• For two kids

the child only is 12 years- old.
Also, juice is relatively high
amounts of acidity.
 this also is good start for the night.
• Bread-Baguette c
Is the more popular bread
Can mix with other dish to eat
• Soup
• French Onion Soup
is more popular and easy to
make for the world
make our after food is best .
• Salad
his is one of the main fish
course in our menu.
 Also , the tuna have many
nutrition for our body.
 It is good of the child.
Also, this menu is not difficult to
cook.
Main Courses

• Cassoulet
famous food in French.
 All family can cook even is the rich or poor because this food can
change everything which is the vegetable or meat also can change
with their taste.
 In our cassoulet, we will choose is many vegetables less meat
because cassoulet is our the main vegetable course.
Also, our second main course is about the beef. Therefore, the
cassoulet aims is provide the vegetable to our dinner.
• beef bourguignon
famous food in France.
this course have red wine to cook , but when they cook , the red wine
will evaporate. Even the child also can eat this course.
Also, the course is our main meat to our dinner.
The family can mix this with Baguette.
It is easy to cook
Dessert
• Blueberry Lemon Clafoutis
 easy to cook
The adult and child can eat
Is good of the child
Tableware Placed
Tableware is one of the contents of the food culture in France. The easiest way
to set the dishes is: the plate placed in front of the middle position, napkins
placed in the tray, the left side of the plate fork, the right side of the knife and
spoon. The front of the plate from left to right is cup, red wine glass and white
wine glass.

Using tableware way

first ,start to using the outermost tableware . Than,
the outside tableware is for eating appetizer, the
inside is for the main meal knife and fork.
The meal process
• Both hands are allowed to put on the table
• using from the outside to the inside to take the knife and fork
• left hand is holding the fork to hold the food
• right hand using the knife to cut the food into small pieces, then use
the fork put into the mouth.
• To putting down the knife & fork, should be placed in "eight" font
• After eating a dish, the knife & fork put together on the plate.
• Do not hand knife & fork in the air waving shaking
• When the meal is completed , put the knife & fork were cross on the
plate
 How to eating food :
For the appetizer
 Can not arbitrarily stir the hot soup or mouth blowing cool
 Be careful do not to suck the soup from the soup spoon, use the spoon put into the mouth and then
eat the soup.
 Bread should be torn into small pieces to eat
 Do not apply butter to the whole bread.
For the main course
 The knife and fork to be smaller for eat fish
 Eat the meat of the knife and fork of the largest
 Salad of the knife and fork are also dedicated, is the minimum size of the fork in the
knife.
 Snail clamp is use the snail clip, with a special spoon to pull the meat.
• Do not put the napkin into the collar
• Do not devour, do not talk when chewing
• Do not smack when you drink
• Bread should be broken into small pieces
• Should be invited to pass if you can not get the food that you want
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