/ck/ - Food & Cooking

french are degenerates. hedonists. nasty fucking pleasure-seeking animals.

how do the french eat this, smoke constantly, yet still maintain much better health than americans?

>>12451553
Go to the South of France. Butter nowhere to be found, fuckloads of olive oil in everything.

>>12451560
they walk. they dont have motorized scooters taking them everywhere.

>>12451560
Butter being bad for you is mostly nonsense. Stress and a sedentary lifestyle are the real killers

>>12451560
There's an entire book about it.

>>12451560
sugar/corn syrup

>>12451578
>stress
Is this why my BP is 148?

>>12451600
Probably not the only reason, but I'd bet if you removed the stress our of your life it would get lower

t. Massage therapist

>>12451585
What is it called?

If you completely ignore calorie counts it’s a miracle ingredient for making your food taste and feel better

>>12451907
Why French Women Don't Get Fat

>>12451553

The basic rule of haute cuisine is that fat carries flavour. Not just haute cuisine either. The essential difference between most restaurant food and home-cooked is the shocking amount of butter that goes in there.

>>12452108
>fat is flyover

>>12451553
herb butter on steak is not popular in france, in fact its more of a pleb bbq thing

>>12451553
me :)

>>12451559
>posting this as if there's anything wrong about it in a cooking board

>>12451559
>implying ethical hedonism isn’t the only valid school pf philosophy in a universe devoid of meaning and purpose

>>12451600
Nigger, you're concerned about 148?
Mine was 191, stop being such a goddamn pussy.

>>12451560
Portions?
Also I've read that it has to do with their outlook on eating. Americans consider eating like refueling a car. While the French like to take their time and enjoy. It's pleasure vs necessity.

>>12452137
It's not herb butter in OP's pic but a badly made béarnaise. Can confirm though that we (the French) don't do the butter with herbs laid on the steak for it to melt.

>>12451553
>Who needs butter drenched on a steak?
If you intended for your pic to be related to your statement, it would suggest that the french are not the problem here.

>>12451560
Obesity is a huge problem in France and pretty much all of Europe. It only appears healthy when you compare to US.

>>12451560
The problem isn't diet or activity. The problem is speaking English. Italians eat starch and drink wine, the French are basically languidly suicidal, Japanese eat raw fish with rice, soy and a sodium overdose while drinking rice liquor and working themselves to death. They're all doing better than we are.

>>12451553
Gross.

Butter belongs on hamburgers, not steak.

>>12453001
>implying we're in such a universe

>>12451605
>t. Massage therapist