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Latest Online French Class – Speak French Beer!

OK, so it’s not exactly an online French class – you can’t answer back or pass notes to each other – but I hope this little insight into French beer will give you a slightly better command of the language. It will help you get a drink too!

La bière is what we’re talking about. French [...]

French Cheese, Goats, Pyramids and Napoleon!

The last post was about French wine so I thought I ought to give French cheese (fromage) a bit of a mention – especially as there seem to be almost as many varieties of cheese as there are wine!

They also have the same kind of regulatory body. Anybody can make cheese – or wine – [...]

Best French Wine? Now There's An Easy Question!

I’m kidding of course. The best French wine? That’s as close to an impossible question as you’re likely to get. I’m trying to taste as many French wines as possible (purely for research you understand) but if I live to be a thousand I doubt I would get through them all!

I’m going to keep trying [...]

French Food – Pomme De Terre, Patate and Parmentier

When you’re learning to speak French you are usually told that a potato is a pomme de terre – which literally translates as apple of the ground. When you go to the market though, it’s much more common to ask for patates. It’s just another one of those things that learning French in France gives [...]