I'm going to Paris for a week and don't speak ANY french. Please help. I know the hello's and goodbye's but that's it. And I"m leaving in 1 week! Any help would be ...
I personally love the City of Paris, i know it is a romantic city.. i was just wondering-
is there an actual reason for it being called the City of love other than the French are considered to ...
Please only people that have been to paris or live there or are french citizens. Additional Details I make a habit of going places a tourist usually doesn't go in America....
I may want to move to france but I dont know what it is like people,food,work,currency, ect. I need change in my life and I pretty sure that I can afford to make some mistakes....
2 nights in Paris at the beginning of November. 2 adults and 1 child. as central as possible. need a hotel that is not too dear but not bottom of the cheapest out there either. Any recommendations?...
Pain Perdu. Means lost bread. Because traditionally, they would used the old bread that was too hard to be consumed regularly, dipped it in eggs and toasted it, so avoid wasting it.
Spanish Omelette is called tortilla española ["spanish omelette"] or tortilla de patatas ["potato omelette"] in Spain - it's also known as tortilla de papas ["potato omelette"] in Andalusia.
French toast is called pain perdu and can be found anywhere in France as it is an universal peasant recipe to use stale bread. It can be done with milk, butter, sugar, cream, eggs in any combination possible. We used to eat our stale bread like that when I was a child in the south of France. It is slander to even hint that I purposely hid some bread to make it stale so my mom would make some pain perdu.
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"Pain Perdu" comes from Alsace and it means "lost bread". It was a way to make use of stale bread and considered "peasant" food.
My Alsatian mother-in-law was really surprised to see me making it because I had been told that French toast wasn't really French (but it was!) She told me they used to put sugar on it. The maple syrup is a North American addition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_toast
About the Spanish Omelette, I wouldn't say that the Spanish Tortilla is the same thing. I know it with bell peppers, tomato sauce and other things in a *thin* omelette (no potatoes). We would call the one from Spain, a "Spanish Tortilla".
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