What website can offer me a great supply of French food, chocolate, and beverages that I may order?

I need to know a few websites that people use (maybe students in US from France) to buy delicacies (all sorts of foods and chocolates) from France or even Quebec. Just a website similar to the Korean (HMART) where Korean students obtain their home country foods. Kind of like an online French grocery store that is trusted???

Thanks a lot.

Any not expensive french food made up of grains ?

Please list me any not expensive french food and DRINKS that could have been eaten during the 18th~19th century.Thanks!

What traditional French food for a picnic in Paris?

I’m feeding a French guy with classic French taste for his birthday, I want the food items and wine/champagne to compliment each other, I want to serve courses in the proper french order, I want it to be high class and very frenchy. . . also, any ideas specific to regions in the south west of France?

What are the French food choices and eating/serving habits?

Hi (=
Any information about the french food choices and eating/serving habits
would be a HUGE help. Thank you so much
Carrie

Do you think French food is the best food in the world?

I seem to love French food. Why is that and do you think it’s the best food in the world too?

How can I (US citizen) and my fiance (Mexican Citizen) move (permanently) to Canada?

Basics of the story: I live in Oregon, my fiancé lives in Acapulco. The US is NOT helping us start our life out together. We want to move to Canada, ASAP, permanently. We’ve looked in to the country, and feel it is an incredible place to build a life. We are ready to move there, today.
There are some issues which are making our lives difficult. As with most issues, some are our past errors in life, and some are purely situational. We are two humans, trying to make a life together. We are not perfect. We have made errors. But we both feel we have finally found eachother, and there in, a reason to Try in life. We just want to live. Together. Somewhere we can both be legal, respected, equal citizens.

Here are the negative issues which should be taken into consideration:
-Neither of us have a substantial amount of money
-I have a $17k tax lien w/ the US gov (due to my parents, LONG STORY. I can file Bankruptcy to get rid of this, if it will help our case.)
-My fiancé was deported from the US.
-He has a “menace threat” on the records from CA
-He is not fluent in English nor French
-He has not completed the “Matricula Conusular”, I believe that is the equivalent of not finishing High School.

Here are the positives which should be taken into consideration:
-He was in the military for 5 years in Mexico
-He has served in the Police force in Mexico for the greater portion of the last year
-I am bilingual in English & Spanish
-We are both capable and hard workers
-I have worked in the banking/mortgage business for years
-He has experience as a cook for years, in the army, and out
-We are both 100% dedicated to starting anew, and will do whatever it takes to find somewhere which will allow us to do just that, together.

The largest positive, however, is our (cheesiness warning) love for eachother. We want to raise a family. I have been told by lawyers to move to Mexico, if we really want to be together. If no one else follows the news in Mexico, as it rarely reaches English news stations, google Fernando Marti, or, read this article: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008112652_mexico14.html. Crimes of this nature occur all the time. Not to mention the drug conflict is verging on a full blown war in Mexico right now. As a police officer, and part of the military, my fiancé knows only too well the realities of a nation at war with its own corruption. And we both know, it is not where we want to start our family.
Any help would be incredibly appreciated. We very much wish to move to Canada, as my family lives in Oregon, US, it would be a 5-6 hour drive for them to visit us. But if Canada will not have us, we are looking into France, Spain, and Italy. We’re just two people, who, like most people, have pasts. But, I love him. And am only asking for the chance, to try. Thanks to anyone who reads this.

How Do I Stop Being A Xenophobe?

I try to not let foreigners get to me (like the French or some Americans ect) it’s just when I feel like i am ready to accept them, i hear or see something that would be a massive generalisation or i would see an English news presenter being punched in the face by a random American who was passing by. And it would just annoy me.

To be honest, I’m getting bored of constantly having a debate inside my head about how Britain is as good as France even though you can’t rank countries in any way and it doesn’t matter anyway. And I’m getting tired of taking it personally when a self-centred American makes a sweeping statement about the British without any evidence to prove it.

My Mum’s xenophobic, and my Grandma and to be honest, I am. But i want it to end here.

So, does anyone know how to get rid of xenophobia so that i stop letting ill-informed foreigners get to me and so that i can embrace other cultures.

Thnx
@ Gaulish Warrior: That just proves my point!!!! One person says something like that, and people act like the whole country is like that. Please don’t embarrass yourself and your country like that

Who is coming from the News Orleans?

I have as project to travel soon. And I would want to go to the New Orleans, that is a city that I like a lot.

I would want to know if there is among you, persons, that come from there bottom, or that there resident.

I’m French, and live in France. So I’m sorry if my English is bad.

Ethnic unemployed have to learn English?

so for the people who can’t speak english and who are looking for a job they will be taught english or there benefits will be stopped

see more here

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/12022007/325/ethnic-unemployed-learn-english.html

so the question is what do you think about this ? is it fair on them to have to learn english to get a job ? or do you think that they should be able to speak english before they even think about living here ?

but what about us english going to live in somewhere like france and who can’t speak a word of english ?

For native English speakers, can u understand this?

I have been learning English for 15+ years, but when I read the following passage quoted from the news. I couldn’t understand a thing it says, I feel so frustrated. I am just wondering if native speakers can even understand this, or is it just that I need much more work in improving my English.

1. Is this news hard for you to understand also?
2. How many % can you understand?
3. Do you understand the meaning of all the words used in this news?
If not, please tell me about how many words you haven’t seen or not understand in this news.

Thanks!
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CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) – Solemn themes of exile, freedom of expression and the artist’s struggle to be understood are tinkled in a wry and charming way by Otar Iosseliani, who channels them through the experiences of fictional Georgian director Nicolas (Dato Tarielashvili), who can never be happy or at home anywhere, and whose films flop everywhere.

Offering an affectionately ironic look at both filmmaking and everyday life in Soviet Georgia, “Chantrapas” is light but satisfying fare for the cultured or cinema-literate. European arthouse cinemas seem to be its natural abode.

“Chantrapas” opens with a test-screening of Nicolas’ film (actually a short film made in 1959 by Iosseliani) to his two best friends. One advises him to re-edit it to avoid certain banning by the authorities. The other friend vehemently champions artistic integrity.

The film then digresses to offer a slice of Georgian small town life: Nicolas’ halcyon childhood days of clandestine smoking and drinking, and making mischief on the alcoholic local friar; the townspeople’s hilarious fondness for hard liquor; and skits of Nicolas’ eccentric and irascible grandfather (Civi Sarchimelidze), who cuffs people over the slightest tiff.

The official verdict on Nicolas’ film, his smuggling of the print to a French producer, and his final departure to France are all handled in an understated, slightly farcical touch, with parodic passages of film shooting and film-within-a-film slipped in between.

His arrival in Paris at the halfway point and his life as an emigre symmetrically parallels his life in Georgia. In one thoroughly amusing scene, to prepare for the Soviet ambassador and his cultural attache’s visit to his basement lodge, Nicolas and his fellow emigres decorate the room with propaganda posters and play the “Internationale” at rock-music volume.

Eventually, Nicolas’ French lover helps him find investors and producers, but their meeting is a disaster. The film ends on a playfully mythical note, perhaps suggesting that art is as dangerous and seductive as a siren.

Although Nicolas’ experiences echo Iosseliani’s own life as a director whose works were banned in his native Georgia, prompting his emigration to France, it would be way too simplistic to see the drippy and disgruntled protagonist as the master’s alter ego. It is obvious that the director wishes to make a universal observation on how an artist survives in the world, while simultaneously parodying his self-importance. Hence his ironic choice of title “Chantrapas” (a word coined in 19th Century Russia to describe those who cannot sing, and whose modern usage means “good for nothing”) to reinforce his character as a misfit.

Iosseliani also keeps artistic distance by making the time period non-specific, vaguely pre-Glasnost. More importantly, he does not takes sides, showing how the Communist officials express appreciation for Nicolas’ film even when they are required to ban it, while the French producers are more authoritarian — especially in the scene when Nicolas enters the editing room to find the floor piled with outtake film which they have sliced contemptuously.

Technical credits are polished, especially in the superb choice of music scores that is always appropriate to the situation, from traditional folk songs and Soviet propaganda music to classical and contemporary.

What is an easy and efficient way to learn the french language besides reading and writing french?

Only need to know basic french language for grade 9 french course.

How do Italians think about French language, and vici versa ?

What does French language sound like to an Italian ear, and how do French speakers think about Italian language ? Difficult or easy to understand ?

Why is French considered a homosexual language?

My boyfriend comes from France and is very manly. I think the French language is sexy! What do you guys think?

What are some French words that are uised in English language?

is creme brulee one?
i have a homework worksheet for class and I need some french words (not native french language) just words from french that is in english.

Why did the Normans adopt Old French instead of imposing the Danish language on the Gauls?

The Danish vikings known as the Normans conquered Gaul (France) in 790 and reigned for centuries thereafter. Since the Normans were the conquerors, and the Gauls were the conquered people, why did the Gauls’ Old French language persist to the point where the Normans’ Germanic language died out?

Are you a member of any clubs or organisations in central London?

In september I will be starting uni in the centre of London. (on the Strand) I want to make the most of my experience of living in London and I am interested in joining some clubs, organisations, or societies. I know there will be loads of that sort of thing at the uni but I will also want to escape from that sort of thing once in a while. I am interested in absolutely allsorts. Rowing, Spiritualism, Francophiles, Rambling

So, The question is:

What are you a member of:———
What do you do there/What do you get upto:———-
Where is it located:———
Is there a website/contact details:———–

do you think this short political tract makes some valid points?

THE WAY IT STANDS by Libertarius. Not Copyrighted.

When did the common people lose their government? I have lately been reading up on American history, to pinpoint what went wrong. And folks, I’m sorry to say the whole thing went rotten at the very beginning. In 1789, our nation was HIJACKED by FEDERALISTS, namely the TWIN HORRORS of JAMES MADISON and ALEXANDER HAMILTON. They were the driving forces in promoting a strong federal government that pursued it’s own interests and advanced its own agenda. States, which until that time had been fully sovereign entities, were now made subject to the FEDERAL apparatus.

The founders even claimed among many of its group DIESTS, to wit: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and the BOSTONIAN ADAMS. Diests are substantially atheists, ascribing G_d a role in His Universe no less marginal than that of the Demiurge.

Many of these Founders were FRANCOPHILES and FRENCHIFIED, ascribed to FRENCH philosophe blatherings and many, among them JEFFERSON, FRANKLIN, and JAMES MONROE secured boondoggle French ambassador jobs and cavorted in the depraved Parisian salons. If you don’t believe this, read the history of the QUASI-WAR with FRANCE, and how our own government officials undermined US policy to service their French masters.

The people have had enough, and are striking out to reclaim their government. Only after the rotted FEDERALIST superstructure is swept away by OUR RIGHTEOUS TIDE will we again reclaim the mantle of the SPIRIT OF ’76!

Who’s gonna win the French 2007 Presidency and can it change something in US political behaviour ?

In 2007, the French will vote for a new president. Learn about the candidates, platforms, and results on: french.about.com

The favorite candidate to sucess Chirac is the 52 y. old Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. learn more about the possible future French president and his ideological passion for american values.

http://www.sarkozy.fr/home/

The Right Candidate Presidential Nomination in January 2007 in France. With Sarkozy US organisation lookalike…

http://www.sarkozy.fr/video/index.php?intChannelId=1&intVideoId=120

And please realize the ultimate test: “Are You a Francophile?”

http://french.about.com/library/bl-francoquiz.htm

Butterbar Bob’s: I’m sure you know that answering this way to my country is useless and time sparing…

You declare French as terrorist support but Bush or Condi negociate with France in latest SUMMER Liban – Israel WAR.
The US gave the responsability of French Military to administrate the Border under UN banner !!!
Can you reasonably imagine BUSH negociating with our “terrorist country” to administrate peace process in a part of Middle-East despite declaring himself in ideological war with them ?!!!
Do you know Poutine is chasing the same “terrorists” in Tchechenia since 15 years?

Responding “A bas la France” while half the world say “Bush liar” while burning the US Flag.
Arabi live in war status trying to survive and eat day after day and your best answer to that is “They are terrorist, we must attack them”
Who’s is confortably in front of Fox News waiting for some blood in a glamourous Iraki war ?

Ain’t sometimes feeling like as a terrorist state supporter yourself ?
Good to see you answer and trying to debate about the question…
Here is how it was preceived outside the states:

It was verry far from a question of pride or political popularity but a matter of historical humansit values of “old europe” against military or economic pression or interests.

Chirac makes the speech, then shut up, and now is quiting the scene.
France now looks toward other fight like the planet environmental future.
What can you expect more ?

After all, he only did what he was feeling responsible for in name of millions (at least for 500 millions europeans).
Plus having done something for Justice and Human Rights in name of the weakest nations of the world.
That kind of stand make more of a citizen proud of !
Chirac dress himself against this administratiion desiring to occupy an independant country and interfer in world poltical affairs.
Sorry but it was not against americans.
http://aigleconquerant.free.fr/galerie/nappasgrandsaintbernard.jpg

Tourism trade in Paris?

I am francophile and love Paris.I want to settle and live in Paris, it is a wonderfull city.
However I have to make a living and working with the French is difficult and I prefer setting my own business.
What sort of activities I can do there:Touristic guide for the english speaking visitors, ……
Any idea ???

Wimbledon ’07 men’s quarter-finals> ?

I hope I can say this without being told I’m a US hater (I’m not) though I admit to being a Francophile. Gasquet played some brilliant tennis against Roddick , eventually. What a win!!!

Would foaming soap work in a regular metal soap dispenser?

We like foaming soap over the normal viscous gel kind, and buy economy size refills of foaming soap at the store. However for some time, we’ve been refilling a cheap plastic dispenser that came with soap from a long time ago. We’d like to buy a nice new metal soap dispenser, but are unsure whether the foam soap will work in these? Will it?

Have you used Tesco value shaving foam ? (I think it’s clogging my razor!)?

Hi all,

For 20p a can it seems to be a bargin (especially when my bank balance is going down and prices are going up!) but since I’ve been using it, my razor seems to get clogged up and the mushy stuff in the blades won’t rise out under the tap!

Remembering my science lessons at school, I know it’s not really a “fair test”. I’ve recently moved back to the UK from Germany so I’m using all different shampoos, shower gels etc etc. Despite this, I don’t think it’s any of them.

ANyone else used it? Was it OK? Same experience? Any ideas on cleaning out my razor blades (they’re exensive [and not tesco ones!] and it’s clogged 3 new ones!

Cheap shaving foam….false economy?

Thanks in advance!
it’s 36p, not 20p!!

Why is Foam Roller Leaving Track Marks on the Walls?

I’m trying to paint the walls of a home and started on the big cathedral walls first. Having a scaffold, I started up top on the left corner and moved to the right, then lowered myself and repeated the process until I was standing on the floor.
My stroke technique was vertical. The paint was Behr. The foam roller was economy quality. I did one wall that was a quarter of the size of the big one, then moved to the bigger wall (17 feet height, maybe 12 feet across) and finished in about 5-6 hours.
Before the paint was even fully dry I could see on the big wall when I turned the bright light off that the foam roller tracks were evident in certain places. I thought it would dry away, but it didn’t 2 days later. The smaller wall, however, had only a few slight marks, and it didn’t bother me.

The next time I painted, two days later, I was determined to tackle the big wall again and make it even. The foam roller was a more expensive one. I turned off any extra lighting, as that hides the track marks from my sight, and painted at a quicker pace. I started on the bottom this time and tried to make the rolling light and easy after smoothing out the paint on the wall. I kept seeing, immediately after finishing an area and moving a few feet over that what I just painted was drying with track marks already. I quickly did the new area and re-smoothed out the area that was drying. To no help though. I would do the whole wall on floor level and have to go over it again with the roller without any paint on it, just hoping to re-finish it to go over those track marks, before getting on the scaffold to move to the next height. It just never worked out.

I brought in an extender pole, that turned out to be a nuisance. dripped paint, hit objects on the other end, and was not able to apply a steady tension the whole time painting on the upstroke. It also left tracks.
I eventually got to the top by hand and roller, and finished. I stepped off and looked and saw a wall that was much more filled with ugly track marks than it was 2 days ago. I finished in 3 hours. I figured I’d take some time off before painting a new wall again. But I have to re-paint this wall I guess too. And I’m not sure how to do it. Painting a wall should not be this hard at all. I much prefer painting wooden siding than this crap. Wood at least will absorb the paint evenly and won’t leave any tracks if you paint the whole panel that same day.
This house is 17 years old and is the first time being painted. And like I said, the first, smaller section of wall I painted came out good. Not perfect, but acceptable. This large wall is ugly as can be.
Going over the same area again without new paint on the roller, before the wall dried though, made it only worse. I thought going over an area with a roller without new paint on it is the way to work this. But if I don’t do that then on the end of my rolling up-stroke, there is a look of overly wet paint, while there isn’t in the mid-stroke area.

In this economy, what would you say to people who turn down job offers?

My mom recently took an extended leave of absence from her employer (she was able to collect unemployment benefits during her absence).

After a few months, the employer offered to hire her back at her former position (same pay and benefits) but she said no. When I asked her why, she said it was because her boss was a very difficult man and she could not stand him.

We have had heated arguments about this ever since, because she is about to exhaust her unemployment benefits and she is behind on all her bills. I have helped her out by giving her loans.

On top of all this, she has not been actively looking for work,. She has made one or two perfunctory applications for work, but seems content to live off unemployment.

Like most women, she also believes she is always right (and I am always wrong) so naturally she foams at the mouth whenever I broach the subject.

Call me wrong, but in this economy, do people really have the option of refusing a job offer like that? Is “I hate the boss” a valid reason for quitting a position or not accepting one? Doesn’t every single American have to deal with a boss or a co-worker who is difficult?

IMO, any work is honest work, and even if I have to take a job cleaning toilets, I’m going to do whatever necessary to pay the bills and I’m going to learn not to complain. Especially in an economy where 1 out of every 5 Americans is out of work.

IMO, she should’ve thanked her lucky stars that her former employer even offered to take her back instead of just cutting her loose (considering they most likely had piles of resumes from people younger and far more qualified than her, just waiting to fill her former position).

Some people might say “Shut up you ungrateful little bastard. She’s your mother, she used to change your dirty diapers three times a day, she can do whatever she damn well pleases so lay off her!”

Is this how to save the economy billions the Jonnie Marbles’ way..?

Yahoo! via Sky News tells us that Jonathan May-Bowles (aka Jonnie Marbles ) in:

Explaining his actions (in attempting to ‘custard pie’ Rupert Murdoch) May-Bowles said: “…I guess I did it because I had no faith in the Parliamentary process and I wanted to see some kind of justice done.”

Members of the audience described how the protester carried out the attack saying: “You naughty billionaire.”
(ref: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rupert-james-murdoch-appear-mps-133937218.html )

Using this model — should we now do away with the prison system (hence saving billions a year!) and simply set-up a ‘foam pie-ing’ mechanism whereby we all (general public) get a turn (like jury service perhaps?) to ‘foam pie’ anyone accused of a crime whilst shouting things appropriate such as: “You naughty burglar”, “You naughty tax-evader” or “You naughty fraudster” etc etc etc…

(Naturally — for more serious crimes such as rape, murder or paedophilia — the foam pie could be replaced with an iron bar? Or W.H.Y.?)

Affordable french fashion?

I live in America but I have recently become interested in French pop culture – their radio stations are to DIE for!

Anyway, I’d like to start incorporating more of a French fashion to my wardrobe with some designer labels or just looks that are more “french” – I know Chanel is big but not in my price range. What are some affordable designers and styles that are big in France? What items do I need in my closet?

can sum one pls translate these 2 sentences in french – ” Fashion Festival” and “Fashion Designer”

English, american, italian and french fashion designers!?

Can someone please give me a list of ALL english, american, french and italian fashion designers please?? thanks

Can any one help me with finding French Fashion designers???

my partner and i need to find out about french fashion for a project at school and it would really be great if someone could help us out! please????

some french designers, preferably fashion?

we’re doing a project in french where we research some designers, and i need to know some. I know Chanel, Prada and Lancome, but i need more… like quite big ones…
Thankyou<3 x

my daughter has a fever of 104.3, staying in Mexico City so not sure about hospitals. What can I do?

Tried showers, baths, light clothing, wet washcloth on the back of her neck, continuously drinking water. She can’t have more medicine for 1 hour. I believe this is a reaction to the h1n1 vaccination.

Does anyone know of all the guesses that were given for the “What’s that Noise” contest from myfm 104.3?

There was a typewriter, staplers, film projector, bitting into an apple, and a time clock puncher. What else was there?

What could be wrong with my 2 year old who has a high fever but no other sickness?

My son will be 2 in a few months. He’s been having on and off fevers lately. We’re assuming its his back teeth. But he had a fever last night of a 104.3! He had no other sick symptoms. Isn’t this fever too high for just only teething? We gave him tylenol and wiped him down with cool wet cloth and brought his temperature down.

High Fever, anyone know any good home remedies to help it go down?

I took my almost 2 year old son to the doctor today due to a high fever and coughing; we found out he has walking pneumonia. His temp has ranged between 101.3 F and 104.3 F. We have gotten his prescription for the infection and he has been taking Motrin for the fever. Does anyone know of any home remedies that will lower his fever a little bit quicker than the Motrin (seems to take a while to kick in) or for those times that his fever is going back up and it’s not yet time to give another dose of medicine? I heard cool baths with rubbing alcohol will help but he really isn’t in the mood to get in the tub and I was hoping to be able to do this while he is resting. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

How do you evaluate f(2), f’(2), and f”(2) for the integral 6t^2 times (sqrtof(1+t^3) dt?

How do you evaluate f(2), f’(2), and f”(2) for the integral 6t^2 times (sqrtof(1+t^3) dt?

For f(2), I got 104/3, which I know is right.
Help for the other two is appreciated. Thanks.