Oysters from Cancale, foie gras, great Burgundy wines, chocolate, sauces, and royal desserts: this documentary explores how the tables of French kings helped shape the history of gastronomy. From Louis XIV’s appetite for oysters to Louis XV’s passion for gardens, hunting and cooking, from Marie Antoinette’s taste for chocolate to Napoleon’s attachment to Gevrey-Chambertin, food becomes a way of reading power, taste, ritual and prestige in French history
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I love French culture, but their language is genuinely hard to even listen to.
I cannot think if anything French that I admire or aspire to have or do.