French barbecue BRUEL Makiko(The cartonnage author of France traditional handicrafts )
“Barbecue” is pleasure of summer for the Parisian. There is one relevant with the climate of Paris.There is so long winter in Paris. You need coat from October. If November comes, the days without sun keep two or three weeks. By the cause, some people upset their health or lose their mental balance. Peoples in Paris feel pleasure for enjoying the sun bath. Many French love barbecue so much.
As for French style barbecue, it is different from Japanese one. It is general for French people to enjoy barbecue on the yard or veranda at home.
Their barbecue is full-course dinner. Especially an aperitif is indispensable for French people. They do not omit this at any parties. The barbecue in France is atmosphere like a cocktail party.
A main dish is a sausage or mutton and steak. You should feature the sausage. It is different from German sausage. It is a sausage of mutton and beef called Merguez. French people like the sausage with herb. It is so exciting to cook the steak in France.They make into charbroiling the lump of the meat with a bone which exists also two or three kg.
The good days of summer, Paris is wrapped in the delicious smoke . Charbroiling is forbidden law in Paris actually.
Barbecue culture is realized in the “Tacit Accept” of the neighborhood. It is sense in character with the French to give priority to their custom over law.
Try French barbecue once. Bon Appetit.