Food in French Homes

Food differs more from day to day in France than it does in the United States, not only in the variety of each day’s menu but in the choice of the menu according to the persons to whom it is to be served. In the United States there is less difference between the choice for the family’s menu and one for guests than there is in France. For example, this is the menu at a lunch party to which we were invited at a house whose mistress was a well-known French hostess and whose food was famous.