Day 3424 (Saturday) 24th October 2026. This is Peillon and this is Villefranche and Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat I found this interesting article about classic French food, it's quite long so I'll post it over two days... 20 iconic French dishes everyone should try Without doubt, one of the most iconic things about France is its food. The vast array of its famous dishes you see repeated around the world on restaurant menus is testament to this. But these iconic French dishes often taste so much better on their ‘home soil’, by using locally grown ingredients and staying true to the original recipe and method. French cuisine is so admired that in 2010 UNESCO added the “gastronomic meal of the French”, the ritual of a good long lunch with its courses and matched wines, to its list of intangible cultural heritage. But there is no single “French food”. What defines it is terroir: the idea that a dish belongs to its place, made with local ingredients to a recipe handed down on home soi...
