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French from Florentine?

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1.   Feb 18, 2008 12:14 PM

» Feature Writer Larry Ervin - Does French Haute Cuisine Originate from Catherine de Medici?


Any history buffs out there with the straight skinny? The story goes that when the Medici's arranged the marriage of Catherine to the future king of France, that the French were still eating like barbarians and she brought with her an entire kitchen staff and a sophisticated cuisine. Others say she could have had little influence because [1] the king much preferred his mistress, [2] the alliance soon fell apart and the Medici's refused to pay her dowery, and [3] it took her ten years to bear the king a son. Or is all that just sour French grapes?
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