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Questions concernant les noms des aliments et autre terminologie relative à l'alimentation.

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Pâtisserie versus pâtissière

My first take is that this is the name of a shop in an English-speaking country, because of the 's (which wouldn't make sense in French). The name is “Ludo's [shop], [Ludo being a] female pastry chef” …
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Eating in France

It is true that French people don't say “Elle mange le petit-dejeuner”. But the reason is not that this would mean “the idea of breakfast”. The sentence is perfectly comprehensible, it's just not idio …
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Jeunes poulets télévisés

Une recherche sur Google Books donne plusieurs sources, dont la plus ancienne explique l'étymologie. Louis-Jean Calvet. Article indéterminé. In Le Français dans le monde. 1987. Thérèse Dalhoutre, un …
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Calories (capitalized) vs calories (lowercase)

In both French and English, there are two units called calorie, with a lowercase C except as required at the start of a sentence. Which one is meant depends on the context. In a physics or chemistry …
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