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Quiz: French Terms On A Restaurant Menu

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Are You Baffled By French Terms On Menus?

Imagine the scene. You are sitting in a posh restaurant and the menu is in french, the waiter is coming your way and he will be expecting an order from you.

Can you cope, can you cut the mustard? Or will you be surprised when your food arrives?

Take this short quiz and help to prepare yourself for this nightmare scenario. Be able to ask the waiter sensible questions about the menu, so there is no need to show yourself up...... this time.

I also include links to useful web sites for further study and a few books on Amazon which could be useful reference on this subject.



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Understanding French Terms On Menus

Do You Feel Afraid To Order From A French Menu?

Try this short quiz which may help with understanding a menu, next time you eat in a french restaurant you may feel a little more at home with these pesky foreign terms.

Help with French Menu Terms

Further Help From Related Web Sites

This is obviously such a large subject area, we know how the French love their food after all. But there are a number of sites which can offer help to understand what is meant by the menu terms in common usage.

Reading the menu in a French restaurant can be a little tricky, and not just due to language difficulties. There may be important differences between restaurants in France and in your own country, including what food is offered and how it is prepared. One obvious example is the term "entree". In France this means the starter but in Canada and the United States it has come to mean the "Main Meal".

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Basic help with the stucture of a menu
Describes the numerous potential courses and special terms to help with ordering and paying for food in a french restaurant.
Basic menu terms
A bit of vocabulary to help understanding the menu
Meaning of "entree"
How the discrepancy arose, an example of more than one meaning of a term on the menu
What is a canape
A short description of the canape as used for hors d'ouevres
what does "en bruchette" imply
an article describing the meaning of this term

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I have also written a brief lens on why you are offered a taste of any bottle of wine you order in a restaurant. It is not to see if you like the wine but to give you an opportunity to see if the wine has been spoilt in the bottle,so that you can send it back and ask for a replacment if necessary.
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