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    Beaujolais Nouveau 2010

    Most of the people in foreign countries think about wines in grape variety as the famous Chardonnay we all see in the US serials or the Pinot noir or the Merlot and so on. In France, we reason in wine region which are strictly delimited and you can see on the label glued on the bottle...
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    Beaujolais Nouveau 2010

    The"beaujolais nouveau"'s day is a very special day in France like your Halloween day :). Everybody tastes this new wine ( at work, at home, in the bar, never in restaurants) and each time we have the same reflexions - it's horrible, it's not good and so on. oh my god, i don't like the banana...
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    YOUR Top 5 Spices?

    herbs as fresh garlic , onions ( white red or yellow),parsley,bay leaf, thyme,basil spices in powder: curry, coriander,turmeric,paprika, ras el hanout (couscous spices). Hot Dijon mustard, lemons, vinegars of cider, of wine or balsamic. Olive, sunflower,ground nut oils.
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    Hello from southern France

    Bienvenue à toi sur ce joli forum :)
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    French food prices

    Thanks for your replies. i know that United states are huge and there are as many cultural differences between either from East and West or North and South as in Europe. Food culture from Florida should be very different from theses of South Dakota or Alaska as Sweden food practice is...
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    French food prices

    wonderful thx for links i give you a French link too Auchan Drive : courses en ligne express - Magasin drive Boston... now i understand :) The intellectual town of US, the town of the aristocracy. For us in France, the US states are divided in 4 parts. NY ths big cosmopolitan apple, the...
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    Butter or margarine?

    don't care about it it's the same in all language particularly in France where grammar and spelling are very important
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    French food prices

    thx for reply Coca and Mc Do were a joke, but despite these prices, i'd be very happy to know the US food prices. If someone could post a link of on-line supermarket food store, he would be kind
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    I broke up with Green Mountain today...

    Is it true that in the US, you all drink soft light coffees all day long? In France, coffee is drunk at breakfast time and after the lunch. 3 coffee spoons of coffee (mix of robusta and arabica) for a mug. In the morning or afternoon work break, dishwater coffee at the office machine.
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    Butter or margarine?

    i do apologize for the abbreviation. i thought it was common in the US.
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    Butter or margarine?

    Butter never been dangerous, it only depends on how many lbs you use to cook in u're frying pan. :) if u don't want to avoid u're butter burns in u're pan, put a little spoon of oil to prevent it from burning ( becoming dark brown). Use sun flower oil for example for it's neutral taste.
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    Hi there

    Realy easy to do but time is necessary ( about 2.3 hours) :)
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    French food prices

    I'll give you some examples of French prices. As our prices are in euros / kg, i make a quick conversion for dollars / lbs. All of our prices are taxes inclusive as we are in summer time let start with few prices. Salads about 0.9 € so about 1.2 $ vegetables ( tomatoes, peppers, courgette and...
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    Hi there

    I'm a French guy who live in Corsica at this time. i'm here to learn how US people cook cause each time i watch gordon ramsay's hell kitchen tv show, i'm a bit disappointed by the poorness of he restaurants' menus. in another way, i'd like to talk with this forum about prices of meat vegetables...
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