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French Food and the American Pig in a Blanket

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France and food go hand in hand. France could be called Feast, it is a fitting name. The French love the ritual of dining, feasting and food. The entire French culture is surrounded by food. Those of us living here live our lives by the French food clock. Breakfast Lunch and Dinner…and everything food related in between. The scripture reading: "There is a time and purpose for everything under heaven…" really meant to say: There is a time and table for every food under the Eiffel Tower.

This is to say that if I see another thing to eat between now and lets say the next two hundred years I am going to burst. 

…and as I type my 80 year old mother in law (who wears three inch high heels and lipstick,) is getting ready to go to the fresh food market!!!!!!!

Help me Rhonda….

The Twelve Days of Christmas have started… and the feasting is no way over. Oh my… French and food go hand in hand, and French food and Corey go hand to mouth. I have got to learn to say no…. or maybe this means I have become French?

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31 responses to “French Food and the American Pig in a Blanket”

  1. Laura

    I’m thinking that those French women must take a magic pill after all that food because they are so slim! It seems as if we have been eating non stop too over here in the good old USA…but after I eat it…I wear it!

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  2. Katiebell

    Hi Corey! First to post a comment (I must be tunning in heh?) Hope your Christmas went OK then. Glad you are feeling part of the feast of France.
    Yes Food is what its all about for me, we had 10 dishes I made for dinner yesterday and I just asked my son what he’d like tonight. I was going to re-heat left-overs but even that feels like too much. So cheese and crackers for dinner tonight. (I bought a very nice French cheese that we managed not to polish off yesterday) Better stop typing or I wont be the first anymore! Love to you Kd

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  3. Jeanne

    Merry Christmas
    Much love
    Big hugs
    I love you

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  4. Lilly

    Here with my family in Massachusetts USA it’s the same! Only problem is that my sister and I have taken the places of my mom and aunts and we’re just not as good at preparing feasts. For Christmas dinner we had 18 relatives and tomorrow the 18 plus 7 more are coming back!!!
    Have a wonderful delicious holiday and next year you can walk it all off! Happy New Year!

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  5. Miss Robyn

    I can never understand how those French women can eat & eat and never get fat !! I have a friend who is French who lives in Australia ~ she eats cheeses of all kinds.. and she is so slim..

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  6. Cookie

    “French Women dont get fat” was written by a french woman. Maybe we can learn a trick or three from her book. Hugssss Cookie x

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  7. Annie

    Corey,
    Merry Christmas and hugs.

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  8. Marilyn

    Yes, I do remember the French attitude on food when we traveled there. Everything stops for each meal. It was a real treat just to see and be surrounded by it. Our Christmas dinner this year was a French Christmas dinner, very good.

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  9. Cheryl at Casual Cottage Chic

    LOL! What timing, your post. I finally watched the movie “Julie & Julia” (a stocking gift from son) yesterday evening. Julia LOVED food and it was obvious from the movie that living in France was the perfect place to learn to cook….and eat!! Didn’t care for Julie in the movie…but loved Julia and anytime scenes were of Paris {and their apartment..oh, lala}.
    Don’t say “no”…just take little portions 🙂
    Cheers!

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  10. Lia

    Corey, share the secret…is it a myth that French women don’t get fat, or even plump? Is it all about portion control? Do the women in the rest of the country look plumper than the femmes de Paris?

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  11. Kathie B.

    Corey, when you wrote “France could be called Feast,” did you realize that the Portuguese title for Ernest Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” is “Paris é uma Festa” (literally, “Paris is a Feast”)?
    (\__/)
    (=’.’=) !
    (“)_(“)__|
    (meow)

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  12. Diane

    Please tell us more about your French Mother in Law and female relatives. How do they feel about all of the food in the coming days?
    I enjoy your Blog so much.
    All the best to you and yours.

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  13. Kathie B.

    Let’s try the kitty again (one of them’s bound to work!):
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    (=’.’=) !
    (“)_(“)__|
    (\__/)
    (=’.’=) !
    (“)_(“)__|
    (\__/)
    (=’.’=) !
    (“)_(“)__|

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  14. Kathie B.

    Something about Typepad seems to have a problem with properly spacing that exclamation point (!) at the tip of the cat’s tail. Oh well, it seemed like a good idea at the time…

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  15. Kathie B.

    BTW, supposedly the REAL secret of French people dining well without gaining (much) weight is that they eat smaller servings than do Americans.
    Plus, the French typically walk more than average Americans.

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  16. Rhonda

    Love this post because my 73 yr. old mother still puts on her 3 inch heels and dances away with her senior friends. Don’t you love it? We should all hope to feel that young inside at that age. Please tell us more about your mother in law..she sounds fabulous.
    Passion for food is the only way..you must limit your portions but only eat what you love. That’s my motto. I love the French!
    Viva La France!

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  17. Merisi

    Italy and Austria, Vienna in particular, are much the same:
    I just realized it is only Saturday (Boxing Day is a holiday here!), and that tomorrow there will be more food to savour. And the day after tomorrow, and so on, until Three Kings’ day. Not to forget every day thereafter …. bon appetit! 😉

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  18. Paula S In New Mexico

    Yum!

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  19. Violet

    I don’t even own any 3 inch heels. I should get some. In RED … if I could find any that don’t hurt that is. (oh, now I see the problem. Comfort is a priority… LOL!) Your 80 year old mother-in-law is an inspiration!!! ~ Joy to you Corey ~ Violet

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  20. Margaret Bouwmeester

    I agree, right after the holidays it seems like one more anything to eat and I am going to bust open!!! This year we were alone, just the Dutchman and myself, so we had squash and steak, with mushrooms in red wine (Julia “s recipe), it was lovely!
    I wonder too, how do all the french women stay slim? It must be all the walking!!!
    Hugs,
    Margaret B

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  21. carol

    Oh, you made me laugh out loud!!! For one thing, I thought I was the only person who said, Help me, Rhonda! (Thank you, Beach Boys). Now I know I lived in France some other lifetime. Food, glorious food!!!

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  22. The Brocantess

    My love you are already tres French 🙂 in all the best senses of the culture. Enjoy your feasting.
    Mimi

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  23. Minodora

    I should learn from your mother-in-law,about elegance and feminite,from Annie about patience and love,and complain less to at all!
    I learned how love can make the distance between continents seems like the next door,from you!
    thank you!

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  24. The Little Red Shop

    Bon appetit!!!
    : )
    Julie M.

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  25. paris fudge

    Here’s what someone told me his mother did-
    Feast like crazy
    And then fast for 3 days after or eat just a few crumbs.
    Restraint is in their genetic DNA
    Go fight city hall.

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  26. Julie Ann Evins

    It is not the season to starve Corey, enjoy now, repent at leisure. With love Jx

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  27. Davischik

    I say we all call Matthew!

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  28. Mindi

    So funny! Hey eat some great French food for us and we will all start a diet support group while reading the French womens secrets to staying skinny after the holidays.

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  29. Gina

    I am so stuffed here in Australia that I think I will burst if I eat another mince pie!
    Oh for New Year and all those wonderful resolutions I plan to make….

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  30. Haley Hogan

    I could not agree more .. I moved to Paris partly for the different approach to food in France from the states (no overwhelming diet culture and a much more joyful approach to food) ..
    xxxo H

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  31. jend’isère

    Just for fun I made mini pigs in blankets for French kids and chuckled when they thought it was original and good. Mine love snails and foie gras.

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