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French Food Gift Ideas For Christmas – Better Than A Pair Of Socks
By William Penworthy
With Christmas just round the corner, French food and gourmet olive oil food gifts make the ideal gift for someone you know. French food has long enjoyed a reputation for quality, and yet we very rarely indulge ourselves with gourmet olive oil food. Christmas is the perfect time to treat someone you know to a gourmet olive oil food gift, either as a treat on its own, or perhaps as an ingredient if they enjoy cooking.
Anyone who likes cooking knows that no matter how hard you try, a meal is only as good as the ingredients. Indeed, so is the cook’s reputation. There can be no doubt that adding a few gourmet olive oil ingredients will help lift a traditional recipe to a whole new level. Do you know someone who enjoys cooking? Why not consider French food ingredients or gourmet olive oil ingredient to help them develop some new culinary delight! Perhaps you enjoy cooking for friends and family yourself, in which case you might consider adding a few French gourmet olive oil ingredients to your usual recipes. Often it doesn’t take much to lift them to a new level of enjoyment.
Typical French food ideal as gifts this Christmas may well include such delicacies as duck confit, goose foie gras, goose cassoulet, duck cassoulet, marrons glaces and creme de marrons clement Faugier. Just read that list again – doesn’t it just make your mouth water? Only French food could sound as good as that! But it’s not just about exotic names that sound fancy. Each and every one of those items offers full, rich tastes which are truly memorable.
A quick glance in your kitchen cupboards after dwelling on such gourmet olive oil food delights as Perard fish soups, French jams and chocolate walnuts may well make you start to suspect that this year has not been a particularly kind one in terms of food and ingredients.
It’s understandable – it’s been a tough year for everyone, and many of us have pulled in the belt. One of the first things to be cut back on for many families has been food. We still have to eat, but making do with cheap ingredients, standard supermarket faire and high street produce may well keep body and soul together, but it does little for the spirit. By treating yourself, your friends and family this Christmas to French food gifts such as marrons glaces (candied chestnuts), goose foie gras and duck foie gras, foie gras with truffles, pinot gris wine jelly and the foie gras mi-cuit may well do a great deal for the spirit.
Many of the traditional French food dishes have names which are so well known they’re almost considered standards in culinary terms. Meals or dishes such as Coq au Vin de Bergerac or French Poulet Basquaise for instance are well known across the world. But what is it that makes French food so well known, so admired, and so much sought after across the globe? Almost anywhere you travel you are likely to be able to find French cuisine being offered in one form or another.
It’s easy to think that it’s the name alone which manages to sell the dish, but it’s more than that. A reputation such as that attained by French cuisine comes from having a fine pedigree, using the best ingredients, applying traditional French cooking techniques, and of course, remembering to ensure that the presentation is as masterful as the recipe. If you’re expecting guests to visit over this Christmas period, for a meal or a dinner party, why not introduce some gourmet olive oil food, either as ingredients for your existing recipes and dishes, or perhaps an entirely new meal, such as Artisanal Poule aux Pot, Petit Sale aux Lentilles or Toulouse Sausage with Lentils.
Of course, it’s only fair to add that by offering such fine food, you will not only be enjoying the celebration of a year best forgotten, but the chance to share with friends and family a meal that will reassure everyone round the table that life’s not all bad. The thing about treats and special occasions is that unless they are introduced, enjoyed and shared, they cease to be treats or special occasions. What better excuse do you need than a Christmas occasion with friends and family after a year of financial pressures and uncertainties?
From goose fat to duck confit, French food has the capacity to offer culinary moments to savour and enjoy. Do you know someone who deserves a treat this Christmas? Forget the socks, the musical ties or the novelty reindeer chocolate dispenser. This year, treat someone you know to a treat – after all, which do you think they would prefer, socks or goose foie gras with truffles from Strasbourg?
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