French Food, Mapped

Nice! Very Nice! Bravo for all that Work! For the croque-monsieur prociation: Crok Me-si-eu. Thank you very much! :))

Thanks for the effort, you bring a lot specialties to the common knowledge. But a few big mistakes here :
- This is not ratatouille, this is Tian Provencal. Tian is good, bud ratatouille is divine.
- Galettes are made of buckwheat, water and salt only, no wheat, no eggs, no milk. It is traditionally eaten as a savory dish, not sweet like crepes. The shape in which we fold it is irrelevant.
- You forgot Lyon, which is the capital of French Gastronomy
- Your picture of pan bagnat has chicken in it, this is a crime.

this video concept about food around the world is so amazing.. Please make more video like thia

A too empty map for all the easily available cooking receipes.
Just to add some missing ones:
- Le welsh
- La carbonnade flamande
- La flamiche au maroilles ou tarte au maroilles
- Le coq à la bière (northern version of le coq au vin)
- Les moules frites
- La fricadelle
- La tartiflette
- La choucroute alsacienne
- La bouillabaisse
- Les quenelles Lyonaise
- La tarte tatin
- Les rillettes

etc etc

cue all the french guys complaining about inaccuracies :)

9:56 the English have been calling the French “frogs” for centuries. How is eating frog legs not associated with France by most people??

I could map Brazilian food! Huge country, amazing food (:

10:00 oh no we definitely are associated with frog legs, don't worry. The British and Americans saw to that.

Although, you're sort of are on the right parh because frog legs are not the most commonly ordered dish in France. But, much like snails or oisters, people who like it usually love it and can go for several servings in one sitting.

I think it is really missing some famous dishes in the huge hole you left in the middle of the map.

Just adding Farci Poitevin for the Poitou-Charentes and maybe Brochettes d'escargots for the Deux-Sèvres, alongside Broyé du Poitou ?
And Raclette, and Légumes Vichy, and bouillabaisse, and rabbit mustard.
Adds 2min to the video, but covers most of the holes left in the map - and just with some of the most known (and cliché) dishes like you did with the rest

Talking about gastronomy and France without talking about Lyon is a crime

Tbh I think it's a nice introduction... But not speaking about cheese, charcuterie, fish dishes, Lyon and (as you said) the rest of France; is making the video quite incomplete....

Most of french cuisine isn't fancy, like every other cooking in the world it is made to feed families. France have the most diverse landscape in europe, we can cultivate sun vegetables like tomatoes as well as alpine and cold vegetables, even kelp and algaes like the japaneses, and we had tough times with famines, so we learnt to extract the most calories of simple dishes. We have only oignons, olive oil, bread and cheese? Lets make an oignon soup in the cold winter to heat all the family. The same type of cuisine than in Italia, cooking for poors. Some great man in our history like Antoine Parmentier invented dishes like the "hachis parmentier" to prevent famine.

Talks about Northern beer production. Shows a clip of Cap d'Ona, which is THE Southern beer. 😂
But speaking of my region, the utmost southern part of the country, near Spain, we're known for our wines, most notably a sweet, fruity white wine, le Muscat. :D And in this part of the country, our cuisine is heavily influenced by Spain, rather than Italy. Although there's common ingredients, obviously, Mediterranean cuisine tends to be rather uniform about this. But my town has its own dish, a close cousin of Marseille's bouillabaisse, la bouillinade du Barcarès. A spicy fish stew, essentially.

Oh please, the "tarte flammbee", Flammenkuchen, is part of south west german, alemannic culture, which extends over the state of Baden-Württemberg, german Switzerland, Vorarlberg, Schwaben in Bavaria, Alsace in France and to sone degree parts of Rheinland-Pfalz. You can't really say it's from one place, because it's part of a culinary tradition, that extend all over the alemannic cultural area. This specific dish is home to the entire region and there are plenty of traditional dishes of its type. Flammekucha is Ort of alemannic cuisine more broadly. Alsatians don't get to claim that all for themselves.

We do NOT eat canelés with wine or champagne, if I had to pair it with a drink it would probably be dark coffee.

I enjoyed the video. 😊
Yeah talking about every specialty would take hours, but I recommend looking for 2-3 too try when you visit a region.

As a french person I try and discover new dishes everytime I travel in another région. 😁

"The French food as we know it" you talked about comes mostly from Lyon, not Paris. All the great French culinary school and famous chefs are in and come from Lyon.

:') You made an ad about Rosetta Stone and also acknowledge your mispronounciation and yet you didn't research for the right pronounciation while a simple writing in Google Translate can give you the right one

Why did you say that italian food "influenced" provence region ? It just meditarrean region, so you have similiraties in the ingredients that's all.
Thanks our country have more to offer than only mediterrean food even if it's pretty delicious, it may be why we are obviously the best in the word (wink wink to my italian friends)

A lot of comments point out how you missed a lot of dishes but to your defense there is so much diverse & unknown regional foods it would have been hard to talk about every of them lol. I think you did a good job to make people curious about more, a mini serie about it would be super neat!

This is a rough overview of some of the dishes we have here. But you didn't talk about all the desserts and patisseries, the cheeses, wines so it's not really about french food altogether. Plus a few mistakes that the comments already mentionned but otherwise it's a decent introduction to people who know nothing about french dishes.

Surprised that you know Kig Ha Farz

One missed dish you forgot is "carbonnade flammande". A dish shared with belgium wich is like a "boeuf bourguinion" but with beer instead of wine If i recall right

Do canada

Of course there is a lot more (like foie gras, raclette, axoa, piperade, tripes à la mode de Caen, galettes pur beurre ou encore l’aligot), mais enfin couvrir toutes les spécialités françaises en quinze minutes est impossible.

Amazing video.

Just some stuff you got wrong or missed:
- Crêpe and Galette are not made from the same flour, nobody cares about the shape
- Boeuf bourguignon was in fact, created in paris, it just features bourgogne wine, this dish is different in each part of the country
- Cannelés are not eaten with wine or chapagne, its mostly a dessert, most people eat it alongside cofee

In the north of france you missed one of the most legendary dish for average people which is La fondue savoyarde

In the center you missed the capital of Gastronomy in france, which is Lyon, and features like half of the greatest chefs and specialities of france like Paté en croute or Quenelle

You forgot the most important dish of marseille, la Bouillabaisse


Aside from that thank you for trying to make people discover our food

If you talk about Provence, you gotta mention bouillabaisse (a type of fish soup from Marseille), it’s one of the first dishes that comes to mind there!

Still, great vidéo, it’s nice to see an American take a look at a more popular type of French cuisine. =)

c'est amusant de voir a quel point tout la partie atlantique de la france ne sait apparement pas cuisiné ahahhahah 🥲 habitant a l'ouest de la france
et la bretagne est résumé a un bete "oui les triangle c'est des crêpes et les carré des galette 🤌✨" magique

c'est dommage qu'il y est pas eut une micro apparté sur l'idée que partout en france on fait du vin, mais c'est dans deux région en particulier que c'est connu dans le monde entier
et que partout en france on fait du fromage mais c'est surtout 3-4 fromage que tout le monde connais ^^'


alors que ses deux infos sont des immanquable en france ^^'

mais bon, ça va, vidéo correcte

trying to show every dishes from France is suicidal XD
even french person don't try
but the main info is french food is not fancy its variety

4:17 For crêpes, they are served circular, stacked on a plate, you are supposed to do your own garnishing. Triangles is one way to eat them, which is used by restaurants because it's easier to work with, but a lot of people roll them instead, for a more even distribution of the sugar or jam you just spread.

Please do an Indian food mapped, India is an incredibly diverse country with many regional cuisines, and how the West has a very flawed perception of the cuisine.

High gastronomic cuisine is not cuisine. It is hot garbage sold to gullible fools.
We french love to eat, not gaze at like 2 grams of food on the center of an oversized plate decorated with orange juice and balsamic vinegar.

Real french cuisine is simple yet original. Never oversophisticated. Like the cassoulet or the kig ha farz.

@offthemenuyt now talk about DOM/TOM since it's also France.

You forgot our national dish : "La poule au pot"
You made a great job ;) thank you for the time and effort you put in this amazing video !

Bask country is sooo underated

Thank you to present other things than paris ! As a French girl, speak about all dish in 12 minutes is impossible but I see your motivation. Thanks ✨

France or inverted Russia ?

great video