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Browse Films
- France: Culture and Cuisine (streaming, Academic Video Online) This video, produced by Greg Shepherd, is about French culture and cuisine.
- Gourmet trip. France (streaming, Academic Video Online) Join us as we head to France to explore the tastes, traditions and practice of world cuisine.
- Food revolution. French organic farming explores the unconventional (streaming, Academic Video Online) The FT's Harriet Agnew visits what will be the world's largest rooftop farm and a company growing strawberries and herbs in shipping containers. In the French countryside, she explores a chateau farm that shuns pesticides and ploughing, but is more accommodating to weeds and old machinery.
- The French experience. Bon appétit! (streaming, Academic Video Online) Discover the delights of 'The French Experience', with this television series accompanying the best-selling BBC French course which gives the real flavour of France. Filmed in Paris, Normandy, Strasbourg, the Pyrenees and Toulouse, the programmes offer a rich and varied mix of basic language teaching with travel and cultural information, including insights into lesser-known aspects of the country and its life. Ideal for beginners or those wanting to brush up their rusty French.
Library of Congress Webcasts
- Creating the Parisian Café, 1660-1800 The Parisian Café is part of the essence of Paris and a symbol for a certain French way of life. How did coffeehouses and café culture get started in France? What did early Parisian cafés look like? Why did they become so popular so quickly? Tracking how history, myth and anecdote have molded Parisian cafés into emblems of modernity, Thierry Rigogne transports us back to Old Regime and revolutionary Paris in order to trace the formation and the early history of an institution that stood at the crossroads between commerce, culture and consumption, politics, literature and globalization.
- Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France Joan Nathan discusses her latest book. Joan Nathan is the author of ten cookbooks, including the much-acclaimed Jewish Cooking in America. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Food Arts Magazine and Tablet Magazine, among other publications.
