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Mayonnaise. Ideal for many meals. To accompany French fries, to make a salad, for example the "piémontaise" salad... A recipe with obscure origins, but which seems to be a French invention. It is in any case in the French books that one finds trace, first, of this recipe which we give you at the end of this article to show you that it is easy to make and much better than an industrial mayonnaise stuffed with products not always very good for the health.
It is a speciality that has been served for a long time in small restaurants and that used to delight the amateurs. It is a simple thing that we call "mimosa" eggs because of their shape and color, which remind us of the mimosa plant. The English call them "devil eggs" because they made them red by adding paprika.
(the recipe is at the bottom of the article)
You may be one of the 600,000 people who go to the spa each year to "take the waters" as Madame de Sévigné used to say. The beneficial springs that soothe ailments were often discovered a long time ago by the Celts or the Romans... They are sometimes at the origin of the creation of cities. They are also still relevant today...
It is one of the favorite desserts of the French and it is true that there is nothing more delicious than a chocolate mousse. If it seems that it is a Swiss, named Charles Fazi, who invented the sublime dessert, and that the first to have tasted it is ... Louis XVI king of France.
It seems that the French have a good reputation for sex since a study by the dating site AshleyMadison.com reveals that for European women, the French are the best lovers in the world. Their accent considered "sexy" is also part of their charm according to this survey of 2015. They would be less romantic than the Germans, less funny than the English and less good at kissing than the Italians. But in France? Who are the best lovers? Answers here...
It is in Strasbourg that was born the marseillaise as its name does not indicate it... With Monsieur de France, discover the astonishing birth and the eventful itinerary of a song which is part of the most known hymns of the History of the world ...
Admit that a good vinaigrette is something and it transforms a salad! While we have been cooking with olive oil for, at the very least, 7000 years, especially in Israel, and traces of vinegar have been found that are also 7000 years old in Egypt or in Mesopotamia, the current Iraq, it is only a few centuries ago, if I dare say, that we would have dared to mix the two. And according to our old culinary books, it is to a Frenchman that we owe it...
