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Idioms showing the French are obsessed with food

 

Language is a sponge: from the environment around it, it soaks up all the interests and concerns, values and viewpoints, beliefs and philosophies, not to mention neuroses, quirks and foibles, tics and twists, kinks and oddities that it can find, and gives them a home. Culture’s preoccupations shape the way language is used

It hardly needs stating that France and gastronomy have had a symbiotic relationship for centuries now. French metaphors are often rooted in the pleasures of taste. Let’s face it, the French are obsessed with food and their language reflects it.

 

This section will focus on food-based idiomatic expressions in the French language categorised as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

If you are interested in learning French or improving it, check our language category where we reference all French language classes and courses as well as French language services in Perth.

If discovering all these French food expressions wakes your appetite, you can either check our restaurant or bakery, patisserie and café sections for ready to enjoy French meals. The combination of our Food & Beverage retail and Courses and Classes categories will give you all retail stores offering French food products and all French cooking classes in Perth.

 

The list of expressions has been established based on our own knowledge with the help of the paper “Eating their Words: Food and the French Language” by Prof. Grace Neville from the University College Cork.