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French cuisine — 2010s, Global pastry

Decide the order of French cuisine before the pan is hot. “Global pastry” in 2010s names that order, and 2010 is heat, salt, or time. Do not treat a restaurant photo’s gloss as a quantity. Sydney and Melbourne treat French cuisine as a default casual dinner, with suburban grocers feeding home cooks.

French cuisine sits at spice 22 in this atlas. Croissant and Baguette show the range better than a single heat number. Croissant plus one regional plate — not only the export icon. Onion-carrot-celery base of stocks and stews. Technique 94 in this atlas is not a compliment to every bistro. It marks mother sauces, pastry lamination, wine pairing and a restaurant culture that trained half the world's fine dining.

The home pantry around Mirepoix and the labour behind Baguette rarely fit a takeaway box. Are restaurant versions "authentic"? Restaurant French cuisine is one register. Home pots and market stalls are others. Authenticity is a marketing word; technique is not. Cuisine française is the local name used in this atlas beside French cuisine.

French cuisine is regional before it is Parisian: Provençal olive and garlic, Breton butter and cider, Alsatian choucroute, Lyonnais offal, Basque chili-adjacent piperade. The baguette and the stockpot are the national tools. Street France is thin: bakery queues, roast-chicken trucks, market oysters. The meal is still a table with bread, not a stool and a wok.

2010 belongs to “Global pastry” in 2010s. French cuisine is not a sentence about taste until that measure is there.2010s

Figures to keep

Year of the method
2010s
Measure
2010
Dish
French cuisine
Cooking line
Global pastry

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