Who made french fries?

Question

Fries or America?

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson brought French Fries to America when he was ambassador to France.

Answer 2

Fries

Answer 3

"Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small slices" are noted in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand (circa 1801) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien. In addition, from 1813 ("The French Cook" by Louis Ude) on recipes for what can be described as "French fries" occur in popular American cookbooks. Recipes for fried potatoes in French cookbooks date back at least to Menon's "Les soupers de la cour" (1755). The "Feeding America" Web site, a collection of historical American cookbooks, has recipes for "French fried potatoes" beginning in 1882, "Miss Parloa's New Cook Book." The Food Reference Web site gives as an early reference to the name French fried potatoes as being in 1894 in O. Henry's Rolling Stones, where a comical French detective says "Our countries are great friends. We have given you Lafayette and French fried potatoes

Answer 4

Many attribute the dish to France, and offer as evidence a notation by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. "Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small slices" are noted in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand (circa 1801) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien.

I like them french fried tators , reckon I'll have some of the bigguns ! umm hmmm

Answer 5

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Usage
Where "chips" is the common term, "French fries" usually refers to the thin variant. In the North America except Newfoundland, "chips" usually means potato chips (called "crisps" in the UK), which are deep-fried thin slices of potato. In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, "chips" can mean either potato chips and French fries; French fries are also called "hot chips" or (in South Africa) "slap chips" (IPA [slup]; 'slup' is Afrikaans for "soft").

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The straightforward explanation of the term "French fried potatoes" is that it means "potatoes fried in the French manner": the verb fry can mean either sautéing or deep-fat frying, while French 'frire' unambiguously means deep frying. Thomas Jefferson, famous for serving French dishes, referred to fried potatoes in this way.

There are other, more speculative theories.

It is sometimes suggested that the verb "to french" originally meant to julienne-cut.[1] But this term refers specifically to trimming the meat off the shanks of chops[2] and is not attested until after "French fried potatoes" had appeared.

Other accounts say that they were once called 'German fries' but the name was changed, perhaps because Germany was the enemy in WWI and WWII. But there is no evidence that they were associated with Germans before the wars, either.

Answer 6

As unbelievable as this may sound they were actually invented by a guy who named them after himself. In the book "Unbelievable Origins of Everyday Things" (by David Ames and Angie Olsen, Penguin Books 1999) we read that fried strips of potatoes were invented in 1822 by a man named:

Frenche Frie

He was Italian but living in Sweden at the time. He simply thought his own name was catchy so he named them after himself.

Answer 7

Americans, but since they didn't want to get sued by fat people they called it French fries. lol

Answer 8

Admiral Nelson

Answer 9

the french peoples

Answer 10

I saw a story on this recently. Apparently it was a mistake that a slice of potato fell into oil when a woman was slicing potatos. If I remember correctly, it was a Native American.