French bread, cheese and wine

1. French bread, cheese and wine Rebecca Janssen, Julia Cassiani, Olivia Cole and Patrick Zoerb

2. Bread Baguette is a long, thin loaf of French bread. An average loaf of French bread has 115 calories. The traditional shape of bread in France is a ball, and it’s called a boule. It’s common for a French person to cut a baguette in half and make a sandwich with it. It is a French law that loaves contain only flour, water, yeast, and salt. In the French revolution, an average French man was known to eat about 3 pounds of French bread A standard baguette has the diameter of 5 or 6 centimeters, and can be 26 to 40 inches.

3. Bread pictures and comments This is a baguette The picture above has a boule in it This is a baguette sandwich

4. Cheese The average French person eats approximately 45 pounds of cheese per year. There are over 400 different types of cheese in France. French cheese is categorized by which animal it was derived from, cow, goat, or ewe. France is the third top cheese producer France is the top cheese export. In France, people have always regarded their cheese as essence of life, whether they buy it at a farm or in a department store.

5. Cheese pictures and comment This is French cheese. Which comes from cows, goats and ewes

6. Wine On most bottles of wine in France, there is a label that reads “AOC,” which stands for appellation d’origine controlee,” saying that the wine was produced in that region. There are over 350 types of wine in France. France is the world’s largest wine producer. $900 million dollars are made yearly in the French wine industry. Each region of France has its own type of wine because of the different types of grapes that grow there. French wine was originated in the sixth century, BCE. The French produce between 7-8 billion bottles of wine per year.

7. Wine pictures and comment This is French wine. Which is made from various types of grapes