Microsoft PowerPoint - CLASSIC FRENCH CUISINE GENERAL KNOWLE

Culinary History • Chocolate; 17 th C, through Spain to France • Coffee; through Arabia to Turkey, Mediterranean port to Marseille • Tea and sugar became fashionable • Cane Sugar; British and French Caribbean colonies to Europe In 18th century today’s favorites become popular: Coffee with sugar, tea and chocolate Restricted to aristocratic and bourgeois circles, Items become more common in 19 th C