From Buenos Aires to Paris

My name is Cristina. I am Argentinian, and I came to France some years ago. I live in Paris. Before coming here, I was a teacher, who enjoyed cooking for her family, good but simple things, in the Argentine tradition. But one day, destiny brought to France, and there, great shock! On the one hand, I was pleasantly surprised by the variety of products I could see in the markets and supermarkets, but on the other, I did not know quite what to do with them: why were there so many different types of cream, of sugars, of butter? What was the difference between a “pâte feuilletée”, “brisée”, “sablée” and “sucrée”…? We only had ONE “pâte” back in Buenos Aires, and we seemed to manage our existence quite happily, and successfully, without all the others…..Little by little, I started experimenting at home, trial and error…but French people are very kind, and they take very seriously this question of giving the appropiate welcome to foreigners, so they started inviting me for dinner !!!!! “And what is wrong with that?”, you might wonder.

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