Bonjour à tous!
Apologies for not being on here sooner but as promised, I will do my absolute best to keep up some regular French orientated postings! It has been really strange seeing all your smiley faces around school and not actually teaching you anymore :-( but thank you to you all for still giving me a wave and saying hi, much appreciated!
Apologies for not being on here sooner but as promised, I will do my absolute best to keep up some regular French orientated postings! It has been really strange seeing all your smiley faces around school and not actually teaching you anymore :-( but thank you to you all for still giving me a wave and saying hi, much appreciated!
Seeing as we left off last term talking (or maybe more specifically.... eating haha) about food, I felt some info on food would be appreciated. Food and meal times in France are different...
Breakfast
Breakfast is always a very light meal, generally consisting of breads etc. One will have toast with jam and spreads, a hot drink such as coffee or tea with fruit or fruit juice. They wil also eat croissants, but it is uncommon for French people to eat croissants at every breakfast (trust me, you get sick of them very quickly!!). They're mainly eaten on weekends, when people have time to go to their baker and get them fresh! They will also buy baguette (french bread) fresh from the baker's most mornings.
Breakfast is always a very light meal, generally consisting of breads etc. One will have toast with jam and spreads, a hot drink such as coffee or tea with fruit or fruit juice. They wil also eat croissants, but it is uncommon for French people to eat croissants at every breakfast (trust me, you get sick of them very quickly!!). They're mainly eaten on weekends, when people have time to go to their baker and get them fresh! They will also buy baguette (french bread) fresh from the baker's most mornings.
Lunch and Dinner
Lunch is usually eaten at some point between 12pm and 2pm, and dinner in the evening after 7pm which is very similar to the meal times here in NZ. However, meals usually consist of three courses every time - an entree or starter, your main meal, and finshing up with a selection of cheeses or a dessert. In Paris restaurants the peak hours are 1pm for lunch and 8pm for dinner. The Parsien youth however, tend to have dinner later, around 9pm to 11pm (I don't know about you all, but I would be staaaaaaaarving by then!). The meals are typically accompanied with a different wine. The meal may be followed by a digestif — a small dose of liqueur or other highly alcoholic drink! (That might explain a lot lol..)
Lunch is usually eaten at some point between 12pm and 2pm, and dinner in the evening after 7pm which is very similar to the meal times here in NZ. However, meals usually consist of three courses every time - an entree or starter, your main meal, and finshing up with a selection of cheeses or a dessert. In Paris restaurants the peak hours are 1pm for lunch and 8pm for dinner. The Parsien youth however, tend to have dinner later, around 9pm to 11pm (I don't know about you all, but I would be staaaaaaaarving by then!). The meals are typically accompanied with a different wine. The meal may be followed by a digestif — a small dose of liqueur or other highly alcoholic drink! (That might explain a lot lol..)
Hope you all don't miss your French (and French teachers) too much!! Merci encore for showering us with gifts haha and your lovely card! I will continue to put French culture postings up on here. Teaching a language in person is hard enough so I feel teaching it online might be a wee bit of a stretch for me but atleast you will be learning something!
M.
4 comments:
Ohhh thats cool!
Our class should try and eat like that for a week!
Hehehehe
Hope your enjoying you student teaching,
Kit De Kat
hehe, cool! sounds pretty good to me kitty kat, lol
Yummy, look cheese! oohhhhh cheesy! eerrr yah you get my point
dumb
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