Thursday, 6th February, 2014 – Marie-Noelle Witty “Vive la Difference”

Posted by on Jan 30, 2015 in Reflections

Marie-Noelle Witty spoke about the differences between the British and the French with regard to food, giving a fascinating review of the foods eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner, with no snack-eating between meals.  A highly entertaining talk by an accomplished and polished speaker.

As my notes were not extensive, I also repeat here the Meeting notes of Thursday, 6th February 2014, and the write-up on the brilliant presentation by Marie-Noelle Witty – ‘Vive la Difference’…..

“Speaker: Marie-Noelle Witty ‘Vive la Difference’

Marie-Noelle spoke about the difference between the British and the French with regard to food.  The French have a love affair with food and love to talk about it, shop for food, plan meals and have people for dinner.  As a child growing up in France, when food was put on the table the children were told what it was good for.  The French have the lowest rate of food related illness such as bulimia in Europe.  Families eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and do not snack between meals.  Young children are given a small snack when they come home from school, however this stops when children reach the age of about 12.  Fruit features highly with apricots being the favourite.  The vote of thanks was offered by Caroline.”

 

Dear Ladies,  My apologies for not publishing my draft Reflections on our Guest Speaker – Marie-Noelle Witty’s – brilliant presentation at last February 2014 Meeting.  My notes were pitifully short which is why I think the draft remained unfinished and unpublished and, unfortunately,  undiscovered until last night.

So here together at long last, my Reflections on Marie-Noelle Witty’s fascinating French foodie insight plus the Meeting notes produced by Bernice, and I do hope she will forgive me republishing her notes now.

 

Margaret Halstead