{"id":3611,"date":"2018-08-14T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2018-08-14T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:58:53","slug":"la-gastronomie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/2018\/08\/14\/la-gastronomie\/","title":{"rendered":"La Gastronomie"},"content":{"rendered":"

France is the country for foodies. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. La bouch\u00e9e \u00e0 la reine : la bouch\u00e9e \u00e0 la reine is my favorite french dish. When my host parents had to leave for a soir\u00e9e and couldn’t dine with us, my host mom made us la bouch\u00e9e \u00e0 la reine. The word \u201cbouch\u00e9e\u201d originally refers to the kind of pastry with sweet filling. However, la bouch\u00e9e \u00e0 la reine is rather savory. With the modifier \u201c\u00e0 la reine\u201d, the bouch\u00e9e was indeed created by a queen\u2014\u2014Marie Leszczynska, the queen of Louise XV\u2014\u2014to regain the favor of her husband. La bouch\u00e9e \u00e0 la reine consists of p\u00e2te feuillet\u00e9e (puff pastry) on the outside and a mixture of mushrooms cubes, savory chicken fillets and a kind of creme on the inside. Though it had been a while since I ate them, the taste of the combination of the crunchy outside and the soft, buttery inside still lingers in my head.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\n
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    Four bouch\u00e9e \u00e0 la rein! Enough for 2 people.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    As a foodie, I asked for “une petite\u00a0D\u00e9gustation” in class one day, and my prof agreed that it would be good to have everyone bring their favorite french desserts and share with the others. Since we didn’t plot on the degustation, four of us brought the tarts, though of different flavors, and three of us brought “\u00e9clair.” Therefore, I am going to briefly introduce these two most popular french desserts in my class. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n

  2. Les tartes aux fruits: the fruit tarts were the definitely the stars of the degustation. Basing on a pastry base, the fruit tarts are open to variations on the top, including strawberries, lemon, and the “fruits” in general. To be honest, I thought the pastry base was so hard that I almost hurt my teeth, so I didn’t really taste every flavors.<\/li>\n
  3. \u00c9clairs: \u00e9clair is by far my favorite french dessert. My prof told me that the\u00a0\u00e9clairs were originally only “au chocolat” or “au caf\u00e9”; but later on, since people wanted to expand the scope of this beloved desserts, they experimented on the other toppings, including vanilla, lemons and even strawberries. Technically speaking,\u00a0\u00e9clairs are not hard to make: my host mom said they were just p\u00e2te \u00e0 choux with cream inside and chocolate toppings (she was talking about \u00e9clairs au chocolat”). However, it tastes so good that it was given the name “\u00e9clair,” originally referring to “lightening,” meaning that it was eaten as fast as the lightening.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    top to bottom: les pains au chocolat, les tartes aux fruits\/citrons\/caf\u00e9, la tarte aux fraises\/pommes, l’\u00e9clair au caf\u00e9\/chocolat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    4. Le petit d\u00e9jeuner (breakfast): the typical french breakfast includes:\u00a0tartine, baguette slices with butter and jams; viennoiserie ( croissant, pain au chocolate, pain au raisin); boisson (espresso, cafe au lait, chocolat chaude, th\u00e9, jus d\u2019orange presse\/pamplemousse presse). As for me, I had the tartine every morning. The way French people carrying baguettes around is very cool too. On every morning, I saw my host mom took out the baguette from her bag, even without a wrapping, and cut the the baguette into slices, and then put it back to her bag. Sometimes on the tram, I saw kids fighting with each other with baguette as swords, without a wrapping either.<\/p>\n

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    left to right, top to bottom: jus de pamplemousse press\u00e9, jus d\u2019orange press\u00e9, caf\u00e9 au lait, chocolat chaud.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    \u00a0left to right: tartine, jus d’orange press\u00e9, caf\u00e9 au lait<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    France is the country for foodies. \u00a0 La bouch\u00e9e \u00e0 la reine : la bouch\u00e9e \u00e0 la reine is my favorite french dish. When my host parents had to leave for a soir\u00e9e and couldn’t dine with us, my host mom made us la bouch\u00e9e \u00e0 la reine. The word \u201cbouch\u00e9e\u201d originally refers to the … Continue reading La Gastronomie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73607,290963],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-sla-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}