Explore with me 18thC French cuisine as a habitante in Nouvelle France may have cooked. After the F&I War, and again after the Revolutionary War, habitantes were surrounded and overrun by Anglo and other American influences. By the end of the 18thC, new foods and new methods of cooking would change her culture forever.
12 April 2013
Just in from France on the Spring canoes …Item 30 [Planche II, Diderot, attelier de fayancerie.] Une saliere ou poivriere à l'usage des tables, faite pour contenir l'un & l'autre....
24 January 2013
Footed trays were called cabarets and were used in the service of coffee, tea and chocolate. The Chocolate Girl, Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1745 Le bon usage du thé, du caffé et du chocolat,Blegny,...
The Way of Ordering a Dessert or Regalio
17 December 2012
A Banquet of Sweet-meats is said to be dress'd upon a Level, when disposed of upon China-dishes, and Machines made of Wood, or Osier-twigs, having a great Board in the middle, in form...