French Cuisine
Sliced apples sautéed in butter are a classic filling for these French pancakes
What are crêpes ?
For movies, it’s not just a first showing but a successful Mac-based editing program introduced by Adobe in 1991
What is premiere?
Popeye might like épinards au beurre, which is this vegetable with butter
What is spinach?
This term for the loan agreement to purchase a dwelling comes from Old French for “dead wage”
What is mortgage?
Bonne chance means this
What is good luck?
To make mousse d'écrevisses, you need at least 30 of these freshwater crustaceans
What are crayfish?
“Naiveness” is in the dictionary but the more common noun is this French form
What is naïeveté?
You can use the instant type of this beverage to make a soufflé au café
What is coffee?
Like Gaelic, Breton, Spoken in Brittany, France, belongs to this branch of Indo-European languages
What is Celtic?
Cul sec is the equivalent of these “up”
What is bottoms?
Many a French meal ends with a dry red wine served with this blue-veined treat, the "cheese of kings and popes"
What is Roquefort?
A donnée si literally French for this, an assumed fact
What is a given?
Adventurous chefs can use these fungi to make an ice cream called glace au truffe
What are truffles?
Some claim this name for the South was coined from the $10 notes printed in New Orleans
What is Dixie?
À votre santé literally means this
To your health!
This chilled leek & potato soup is traditionally topped with chopped chives
What is Vichyssoise?
Today’s kids must wonder how to tear the online editions of newspapers into strips for this craft
What is papier-mâché?
If you want to order this ever-popular dessert in France, ask for gâteau au chocolat
What is chocolate cake?
Ibo, Kongo & Zulu are all spoken on this continent
What is Africa?
In 3 words, it says “Long live” the country of Bardot and Escargot
What is Vive la France! ?
For a change of pace at soup time, try soupe aux cerises, made with red wine and this fruit
What are cherries?
It meant a plume of feathers worn on a hat, then came to signify style or swagger
After you stuff this vegetable, you can call it chou-farci
What is cabbage?
As François Truffaut could have told you, in France “to sow one’s wild oats” is “to strike” this many “blows”
What is 400?
Félicitations, en anglais
What is congratulations?