French Cuisine..

I've never really been to France, just zoomed through it on the railway.  So I don't know how they carry on there but I've always believed they're big on food.

Big on sauces, fancy dishes, strange foods (snails?) and so on.

So it's a surprise to me to see in this totally  French espionage thriller - 'The Bureau- - that whenever they eat in their canteen they always seem to eat the same things - either steak and chips (French Fries, to them, I guess) or what looks like maybe crumbed veal (or fish?) and green beans.

Very prosaic.

And the French 'chic' I've always heard about.  The women frequently seem to have fairly ratty hair, uncombed and looking even unwashed, which I don't suppose it really is - so is that their 'chic' - to look scruffy?