How did France influence Switzerland food?

Question

can you guys help me find a website that shows "HOW" France influenced Swiss food?

Answer 1

i duno but swiss food is my favourite especially rosti and that maceroni cheese with apple sauce yumm

Answer 2

Website? I don't know one, but I'm Swiss French living in the German part of Switzerland. What you find in the supermarket in the french part is much more french food: escargot, foie gras, grenouille, bisque de homard, etc... this type of food you don't find in the german part.. this is only in the Delicatesse shop. So in my point of view, as a Swiss French, living in Zürich since 2 years and before that 3 in Barcelona, I think that the Swiss French Cuisine has been a lot influenced by the French Cuisine.. as in the french part you'll find less Rösti or Alpenkäse Macaroni as in the german part. The majority of swiss are swiss germans, and they always think that the french part and italien part are not significant... this is the problem in our culture.. there is a big separation between swiss french and swiss german... a gap in the culture (way people interact together, social life, food, etc). If you do that for a study, I'll advice you to look only at the french part, otherwise you'll have a lot of problem to study this.

Answer 3

Hello I live in canton ticino (Italian part of Switzerland) and in ticino I must say that the influence is equal to zero. It depends from which part of the Switzerland you mean. I suggest that it influences only the French Swiss part.

Answer 4

This might sidetrack you but "France" did not influence "Swiss Food". In Europe "food" is a Regional characteristic, linked to single, specific areas. You can get French food anywhere, if you choose a particular Regional recepy. On the other hand France invented the "Nouvelle Cuisine", so if you mean that sort of influence then look up this name on the Web.

Swiss food is quite varied as such and changes from Region to Region from the Francophone ones in the West, where you will eat typical "French food" to the Italian ones in the South, hardly distinuishable from the Lombardy ones, to the German Regions, which even differ amongst themselves, because the Northern ones have a Swabian influence, the Eastern ones an Austrian one. Above and beyond you have typical "Swiss" overlays like Rösti (roast potato slivers) to the Cheese fondues.

The French influence is all over Europe, it starts from the wines, goes through the cheese and lands in the food with the N.C. or when you get a Regional touch.