Louis Pasteur's book on beer, from 1876 (which is shown), may have sought to elevate French brewing so it could compete with rival Germans.
The antipathy toward the French, brewing under the surface for years as a residue of more than 100 years of colonial rule, may have been sudden and violent, but more bizarre than the rabid Francophobia on display here has been the intense pro-American sentiment.
Coffee was poured, not always a blessing in France, although this was an improvement on the usual pallid French brew, anathema to Americans adapted to the exacting contemporary coffee ritual.
Brew the coffee according to the instructions for using French press brewing.
Use this $29.95 French Press instead and brew your own newspaper and hay coffee when the global shipping lines collapse.
This is the most common type of grinder since it works well for drip coffee makers, French presses and cold brew makers alike.
Speaking of culture and politics, and for that matter Jews, an "affaire" is brewing as the French return from the beaches that may even relegate the Bruni-Allen talk.
Deutsche Bahn's sleek high-speed train, the ICE 3, slid into London's St Pancras station, the first German train to pass through the Channel tunnel, which links Britain to continental Europe.By happenstance the event coincided with a royal row brewing between the French and, it seems, almost everyone else keen on liberalising rail travel through the tunnel.
Prizing freshness, Dough fries and glazes throughout the day, brewing pots of French-press coffee as required, injecting another small batch of doughnuts with Nutella cream (just as crazily good as it sounds).
"People say, 'I don't want to drink it because it's so beautiful.' " Coffee drinks — dripped, cold brewed, poured over, French pressed, siphoned, Chemexed or expressed — are $1.75 to $4.50.
And yet the one I crave in my heart of hearts — and brave ridicule to mention — is a large-production, molasses-dark, blue-collar French beer called Pelforth Brune, brewed since 1937 in the town of Lille, near the Belgian border.
