Cuisine et dépendance

We made a badmington game with colleagues between two departments. First it was fun and I looovvve playing the pom pom girl and I am very good at distracting the other team while it plays. So they lost, of course. The bet of the game was a dinner at home. A french one. So all of us were invited. The German will arrive right on time with empty hands, will take off his shoes and wait at the table to be served and the quickest the better. Don't try to cook anything too "exotic" like mixing salt and sugar tastes for example. Don't mix anything together (like a soup) because he won't touch the spoon (he doesn't know what's inside the liquid, true ! I asked). Better water than wine or maybe beer (of course) or to please the host a slip of white wine. If you invite the French at dinner don't ask him to come too early, he will not understand, will not be ready, will arrive late and will drink too much ... before. Because most of us are French and from Paris we know the rule, we know the game. Please bring a little something for the hostess like flowers and/or wine (better red) or anything funny object you found at the design shop. You will be welcomed with a glass visiting the house. Then you will be guided to the sofa and start to talk while waiting for every guest to be there. Then all together we will start to empty the bottle and It's now more than 10.00 p.m. and you feel a bit hungry but you open the second bottle (maybe the third...). The starters will soon be on the sofa table and the host will do return journeys to the kitchen to be sure everything is under control. When everyone's ready you'll be guided to the dining table where normally you are placed because you made a table plan to be sure that everyone will go well together, usually girl-boy-girl boy. That's why most of the french dinners have even numbers of guests. Anyway, soon the plates are on the table and you compliment the host for his cooking. It is much easier to cook fish than meat and it will be much appreciated because at home we don't do it much, especially here where finding fresh fish is difficult. Then it will go on and on and you soon realize that "Oh it's already that late" and you have to wake up in a few hours. Sometimes we even forget the dessert but rarely the coffee (espresso of course). A last drink ? (for the road we say, we have such a sense of humor) and then it starts again. No, really I should go now. Thank you, it was an unforgettable evening. Don't forget to take the aspirin before going to bed and drink at least a bottle of fresh water. You get headache in the morning because you are deshydrated, not because you drank or smoked a lot. Of course not. Not at french dinners.