Poireau, you bring up a good point about regional cuisine, but I don't think that that situation was unique to France. Regional cuisines are often associated with peasant foods, whereas, in the urban areas the foods were created that were more refined and cosmipolitan. It was these foods, created by the important chefs of the times that anyone "in the know" whould right about. to extoll the virtues of Regional foods was to label yourself as a country "bumpkin" as opposed to an urban sophiticate. |