Conférence "Les expressions françaises autour de la table"

Did you know that the word "baragouiner" comes from the Bretons of the Middle Ages who, arriving at an inn, would ask for "Bara! Gwin!", meaning bread (bara) and wine (gwin)? That before the invention of tin cans in the 19th century, we were "squeezed like herrings in a caque", not "squeezed like sardines"? No language other than French has so many expressions, locutions, metaphors, proverbs and sayings linked to cooking, food and the art of the table. Whether you've got a chocolate bar or brioche for a belly, Stéphane Gillet, author of Dictionnaire des expressions gourmandes, presents the origins and transformations of over 1,500 old and new gourmet expressions.

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