Gérard has not produced the manuscript supporting this claim which, even if true, is unrelated to the later history of the French fry, as the potato did not arrive in the region until around 1735 ; also, given the economic conditions of the 18th century: " it is absolutely unthinkable that a peasant could have consecrated large quantities of fat for cooking potatoes.

Thick-cut, or beefsteak, British chips are occasionally made from unpeeled potatoes to enhance their flavor and nutritional value and are not necessarily served as crisp as the European French fry due to their relatively high water content.

These are made as extremely thin ( 2 – 3 mm ) versions of the popular French fry, but are fried in the manner of regular salted potato chips.

A frozen French fry factory employed many workers year round.

In 1997 Burger King brought him aboard for the introduction of their new French fry and their " Try the Fry " campaign.

French Fries were introduced into common culture by American soldiers returning from service in the French speaking part of Belgium in World War I. Arctic Circle serves fry sauce in its restaurants in the western United States.

In France, many Turkish restaurants and other fast-food establishments serve fry sauce and call it sauce américaine ; it is also common for customers to request " ketchup-mayo "— a dab of mayonnaise and a dab of ketchup — alongside their French fries at such places.

* French fry holder

The fry containers bear the phrases " Meer of minder gezouten, aan u de keuze " in Dutch, or " Plus ou moins salés: à vous de décider " in French, both meaning " More or less salted: you decide.

In the mid-1970s, Burger Chef fryers were fitted with temperature-compensated French fry timers.

The Simplot Company is credited with pioneering the first commercial frozen French fry in the late 1940s.

One of Harvey's more popular promotional menu items are Frings ( Fridelles in French ), a specially designed french fry box that's half-full of french fries and half-full of onion rings.

Ore-Ida initially produced and sold frozen corn and French fries, however, Nephi and his brother Golden developed Tater Tots, bite-sized " logs " formed from spiced slivers of potatoes, from leftovers produced through the company's French fry production.

It was supposedly a McDonald's French fry with Abraham Lincoln's likeness on it in profile.

Currently Algerian cinema is in a phase of restructuring ; the French-wing is taking the lead over the Algerian one, and many film production are written in French rather than Algerian arabic.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

In 1982 / 83 as part of the French national celebration of Jean Philippe Rameau's 300th birthday, Turocy choreographed the first production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades-it was never performed during the composer's lifetime.

This French supported production with John Eliot Gardiner, conductor, and his Orchestra was directed by Jean Louis Martinoty.

The name of Ciby 2000, the French film production and distribution company founded in 1990, is a play on words on DeMille's name, since " 2000 " in French is " Deux Milles ".

German production companies have been quite commonly involved in expensive French and Italian productions from Spaghetti Westerns to French comic book adaptations.

The French Éclair company was already making films in the United States, and their production of features increased with the transfer of more film-makers when the French industry was shut down at the beginning of World War I.

After World War I, the French film industry suffered because of a lack of capital, and film production decreased as it did in most other European countries.

The French government has implemented various measures aimed at supporting local film production and movie theaters.

The French national and regional governments involve themselves in film production.

In 2002, the McDonald's Corporation agreed to donate $ 10 million to Hindu and other groups to settle lawsuits filed against the chain for mislabeling French fries and hash browns as vegetarian, because their French fries and hash browns were found to contain beef extract added during production.

Meanwhile, the synchronization gear ( called the Stangensteuerung in German, for " pushrod control system ") devised by the engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to see production contracts, and would make the Fokker Eindecker monoplane a feared name over the Western Front, despite its being an adaptation of an obsolete pre-war French Morane-Saulnier racing airplane, with a mediocre performance and poor flight characteristics.

* The original version of his article " The Production of Security " ( 1849 ), which was entitled in French: " De la production de la sécurité ".

In 1894, Verdi composed a short ballet for a French production of Otello, his last purely orchestral composition.

The large production, using the finest French artists, of propaganda paintings glorifying the exploits of Napoleon, were matched by works, showing both victories and losses, from the anti-Napoleonic alliance by artists such as Goya and J. M. W.

The current state of the French production line is also vague at the moment, due to poor sales of supplements.

In 1989 he participated in the great production film for the bicentennial of the French Revolution by the French television channel TF1, La Révolution française: He played the role of Georges Danton, speaking in fluent French.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

The Interior man looked uneasily at his French compatriot.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

Let us, like the French, have outdoor cafes where we may relax, converse at leisure and enjoy the passing crowd.

he rose at half-past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday's Herald Tribune and yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette, then put on his high-topped farmer's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.

The director of the post at Mobile kept an adequate amount of French goods, of a kind to which they were accustomed, to supply the Indian needs.

Bienville realized that if the French were to hold the southeastern tribes against the enticements of British goods, French traders must be able to offer a supply as abundant as the Carolinians and at reasonable prices.

But they brought back few pelts to pay their debts, and soon French trade in the region was at an end.

a collection of English, French and German coins, valued at $500 ; ;

Sunday New Orleans brunches continue at the Trade Winds but the daily French buffets have been called off.

Chabrier's little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit and charm.

Nostalgia week at Lewisohn Stadium, which had begun with the appearance of the 70-year-old Mischa Elman on Tuesday night, continued last night as Lily Pons led the list of celebrities in an evening of French operatic excerpts.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

Meanwhile Algerian painters, like Mohamed Racim or Baya, attempted to revive the prestigious Algerian past prior to French colonization, at the same time that they have contributed to the preservation of the authentic values of Algeria.

The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.

He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools ; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

Mont Blanc spans the French – Italian border, and at is the highest mountain in the Alps.

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").