From the French attempts to overcome the world records of pastry and bread to the new words in the French dictionary and the importance of May in France, the Bleetín La Belle this week offers an essential starting point to eat, speak, drink as a place.
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I love a good Tarte Aux is freezing. Every time I enter a BoulangerieI am tempted to buy one. Instead of a chocolate birthday cake, I ask for strawberry every year.
Still, I don’t think I love strawberry cake as much as French pastry chefs just winning a world record for the world’s longest strawberry cake, 121.8 meters and weighing 1.2 tons.
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This is not the first time that France tries to win a world record related to cooking. Last year, French Boulangers He tried to do the longest baguette in the world. It is fair to say that baking and doing cakes are not light tasks here.
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Recently I have heard some accusations about the French bread getting worse, as more bakeries resort to prefabricated frozen treats.
For my American sensations, I am still continuously impressed by the quality of the French bakeries, as well as its general availability. In our neighborhood, we have five on a five -minute walk, although to be fair we have chosen our first two for the PAN and our first two for cakes.
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If you visit your French Boulangerie Next week, you can find that on Thursday the bakery is closed. May 1 is a holiday in France. This year there is a greater probability that the bakeries take the day off after many got into trouble last year for not paying their workers the mandatory double rate.
As for May in general, it is an interesting holiday in France. It really captures something unique about the French spirit (and love for protest), but its origins are real to the other side of the Atlantic.
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The months of May also come with another two holidays this year, and although they could be exciting in terms of free days and travel trips, it is also a moment of main strike for workers, this year on holiday weekends about May strike notices.
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French rail services are intensifying things in an area. From next year, the new TGV-M trains will reach the tracks, and are ready to include a special two-story buffet
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In other news, every year the French dictionary Le Petit Larusse reveals the new words that he will add to his collection. This year, the dictionary announced that 150 new words would reach the book.
We had a preview of some of them, and really show nature always vomiting of the French language, from the influence of the Paris Paralympic Games of 2024 to the constant presence of technology in our daily lives.
Test: Guess the 15 new words added to the French dictionary
And I could not avoid noticing that several of these new words were ‘male’ nouns (which means that you would add the I loyed ORPIN unit In front), for example, increasingly popular tennis sport pad is LE PADEL, No The padel.
It may seem like a mystery what words end as masculine or female, but a beer of a life is official enough to go through the ‘Immortales’ desktop in the academic Française of France, the simple mortals received a firm response.
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