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Bon appetit mes amis!

Alison Palmer, Editor-in-Chief

On Nov. 4 Mrs. Jan Presley's third and fourth block French II classes prepared and ate an authentic French dinner. While the French classes cook and eat food every year, this is the first year that sutdnets prepared a meal in courses.

A typical Franch meal consists of several courses, up to nine on special occasions and lasts around two hours. In the interest of time, however, the French classes prepared only the five main courses of a typical French meal.

The courses included the entree (appetizer) which comes first followed by the plat principal (main course). In the United States, a salad is usually eaten before the main course, but in France, the salade verte (green salad) is eaten afterwards, followed by fromage (cheese) and a dessert (dessert).

The third block French classes served poulet avec lagume as the main course, and fourth block served coq au vin.

French student Resasha Ford said, "I really like the dinner because the French eat a lot of food and take a long time to eat it."

Presley says that she decided to have a French dinner "because part of the study of a foreign language is also learning about the culture, and an integral part of the French culture is their food, and we just finished the chapter on how the French eat dinner."

The French dinner allowed students to more fully understand the French culture while enjoying delicious food at the same time.