Re: CHAT: Which world? Which culture?

En réponse à Roger Mills :


>Weeelll... most of the dump...er, trattorie we ate in weren't likely to be
>serving a crowned head, nor even a member of the Roman High Life.....
LOL.

>All the
>natives were using only their fork... yet why was a large spoon included
>with the table setting?  Sais pas :-))))
Since even in small restaurants the cutlery is put according to etiquette,
it does indeed show something ;))) .


>Right. Moi non plus.  It's not exactly what Best People do over here,
>either.... But sometimes the sauce is the best part-- don't waste a drop.
>A nice filet de sole bonne femme, or a little boeuf bourgignon, hein?
Yesterday Jan and I (*my* Jan, Jan van Steenbergen is still in honeymoon
;))) ) were invited for dinner by a Brasilian couple of our friends. We ate
what they described as "a typical Brasilian dish, which is based on the
French boeuf Stroganoff" ;)) . The sauce was *definitely* the best part of
it! Yummy!!!

>I've always divided cultures into two types:  those who eat to live, and
>those who live to eat.
LOL. I completely agree. And I've always seen this division in Europe to be
akin to a North-South division. Southern countries (France included) seem
to have more a culture of food than Northern countries. I see it for
instance in the way people invite each other for instance. When French
people invite friends for dinner, it means that we will stay at the table
eating from 20:00 to midnight or more! When Dutch people invite friends for
dinner, dinner itself lasts hardly more than an hour, and the rest of the
evening they spend on the sofa drinking coffee :)) . And for what I've
seen, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece are like France, and Germany and
Scandinavian countries are more like Holland.

Christophe Grandsire.

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