University students in Paris during the Great Depression took the initiative to open a soup kitchen in the Latin Quarter even though they themselves neither did the cooking nor had enough money. Part of their [...]
Parisian eateries play an interesting part in an etching by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and in a painting by Loïs Mailou Jones (1905-1998), two American artists who had spent a considerable amount of time in [...]
Brioche as a pastry appeared in French texts as early as 1404; brioche as blunder began to be noted in texts around 1823. In the book Le pont neuf : poëme héroïque et badin, en [...]
Around eighty percent of the food items for consumption in current-day Guadeloupe are imported, mostly from France. One item that sidesteps this domineering situation is crab, which has an interesting history. During the 18th [...]
Women in France did not have the right to vote until 1944. Arguments for women's suffrage included the idea that France would be better able to fight its growing problem of alcoholism if women were [...]
Preferring a type of food other than French is not all that unthinkable, even if one does happen to dine regularly with Louis XIV, as can be seen in the writings of his sister-in-law Charlotte-Elisabeth [...]
France embraced works by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) after Voltaire (1694-1778) became enthusiastic about them in the 1720s, and the English have long embraced French food, so it should not cause much of a kerfuffle to [...]
