French cuisine Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
culinary traditions of France
About French cuisine
French cuisine has roots back to theRoman Empire. Influenced byItalian cuisineas well as local traditions,haute cuisinewas created inParisduring the Early Modern times. The French Revolution put an end to guilds and the privileged noble class, expanding fine cooking and dining to common people. While foreign cuisines such asMexican food,American fast foodandChinese foodhave been less successful in France than in other parts of Europe, they can be found in Paris and the other more cosmopolitan cities.North African, Vietnamese andMiddle Eastern cuisines, and even occasionally sub-Saharan African cuisines (especially from Senegal) in areas with large African communities, are among those that have been imported from former French colonies and taken root in the former mother country. At least s
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