French or Italian cuisine?
 

Inspired by a Reddit post I flashed by a little earlier. What’s your most ideal pick out of the two?

100% Italian.

I prefer Italian for the food itself but both cuisines have useful parallels with others across the world and the French will teach you how to really incorporate goose and duck liver (I ain’t just talking foie-gras) in elevated ways, which is transferable with the cuisine I have the most direct dealing with (amongst others), so it’s both for me. Italian for the food itself, French for the techniques. The only problem I have with Italian cuisine is how pizza-and-pasta-dominated it basically is.

Italian, I am not too familar with actual French Cuisine, maybe Coq au Vin or rare steak?

Yeah. People (including me) tend to be less directly familiar with specific French foods per-se (frogs’ legs being a stereotypical counteract). It’s the techniques that really catch my groove when it comes to French cooking.

You ever had foie-gras, ’though?

Italian for the win.
French is more fine dining and pretentious imo. As much as I love some French dishes, Italian caters more to my palette

No and definately not a fan of how it is produced

Italian is my ultimate cuisine.:dance:

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…I like both/either are a good idea depending on how you feel in that moment…

Both. Although I'm going nowhere near snails, frogs legs or pate de foie gras.

French by a mile....


Snails and frogs legs are delicious...stuffed goose liver however, far far to sweet.

I do love a good snail, I’m not gonna lie.

They smell gorgeous, but then I love garlic. The thought of eating a snail turns my stomach, though.

french food is too weird and rich for my taste. Butter and sauces along with some unusual meat choices make it a nono for me. On the other hand, italian is perfect and is a very wide ranging cuisine

I get that. With me I’m just a sucker for seafood in-general, and seafood’s just an extension of that.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a French dish, unless French fries count. Italian pizza, pasta, yum

Anyone here had one of those huge, red Chicago pizzas? (Speaking of pizza.)

What’s the topping? I don’t think I’ve had a red pizza though

Italian by far

I think French Fries are Belgian.

Just lots of tomato-sauce, in a nutshell. Other than cheese, I don’t think there’s much-else to it than that. But a lot can happen in a tomato sauce. It’s where jollof rice (a West African rice dish), chilli con-carne and countless Italian spaghetti meals form, in the base.

That’s my guess. It’s hard to really know for-sure but yeah. Fries are likely originally Belgian. It’s just that the French are more quick to fry their fries in duck fat, which, along with groundnut oil (which is part of what makes Five-Guys chips taste so good and so distinct), is one of the best fats/oils you can fry anything-potato in.

I use duck fat when I can. It’s versatile and can really beef up the taste of a lot of foods to be fried, including potatoes. A drizzle of it on mash is never a bad idea, either.

I've got to try Five Guys eventually.

Cajun Fries (or whatever they’re called) are to die for, trust. That’s one of their specialties over-at Five Guys. And the variety of milkshake you can get there is incredible.