A la Cuisine!

The expression: "Il faut vivre pour manger et non pas manger pour vivre." (One must live to eat and not eat to live) expresses the role of cuisine in French culture. Socrates originally meant it to be a rebuke: Molière used it ironically and the French later put it backwards to remind all who do not revere meal time sufficiently. Today, we enter the kitchen and stay for a cozy moment of food, conversation and even a recipe.

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French from today:

Que mange-t-on?/What are we eating?

Nous avons au menu une fricassée de tomates et oignons, servie pour accompagner un poulet rôti.

On the menu is a tomato fricasé accompanying a roasted chicken.

Comment comptes-tu faire le poulet?/How will I cook it?

Est-ce bien un poulet de la ferme?/Is it a farm chicken?

Le sel/salt le poivre/pepper l'huile d'olive/olive oil Un peu d'eau/a little water

La cuillère à soupe/tablespoon une cuillère à café/a teaspoon une fourchette/a fork

Mets le couvert/set the table bon appetit!

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