Le Guide Michelin
French Listening Comprehension
Study Guide
Take a look at the following for help with any vocabulary that you might not
have understood in le Guide Michelin, then take
the test.
| Vocabulary | |
| [il] y a | Il is often dropped in informal French. |
| la lutte | fight, battle |
| privilégier | to favor |
| quant à | as for, regarding |
| soi-disant | so-called |
| Notes | |
| un Bocuse... un Martin | This is a list of six three-starred chefs. Paul Bocuse is from a family of chefs going back to the 17th century and runs the restaurant that bears his name in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, his birthplace, near Lyon. It has had three stars since 1965. Marc Veyrat is closely associated with his native Savoie, where he manages La Maison de Marc Veyrat and La Ferme de Mon Père. Georges Blanc runs La Mère Blanc, at Vonnas, in the department of Ain (famous for its Bresse chickens). Alain Passard is the much-garlanded owner of L'Arpège on the rue Varenne in Paris, who took the unusual step four years ago of banning red meat from the menu. Pierre Gagnaire operates a restaurant named after him in the capital's eighth arrondissement, as well as Chez Sketch in London. Guy Martin—a Savoyard, like Veyrat—presides over Le Grand Vefour, in Paris's first arrondissement. |
| Nouvelle cuisine | Cooking that uses little flour or fat and puts the emphasis on light sauces and fresh seasonal produce. Nouvelle cuisine was introduced in 1972 by food critics Gault and Millau, but even Voltaire had "foreshadowed the apostles of nouvelle cuisine" when he complained of "calves' sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce," "mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit," and "the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper and nutmeg with which [cooks] disguise perfectly good food." (Larousse gastronomique) |
| Le guide Michelin
part 1 part 2 French Listening Comprehension Exercise |
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