{"id":10900,"date":"2022-01-15T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colleensparis.com\/?p=10900"},"modified":"2023-01-07T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T16:10:09","slug":"pourquoi-le-croque-monsieur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/2022\/01\/pourquoi-le-croque-monsieur\/","title":{"rendered":"How did le Croque-Monsieur get its name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Le croque-monsieur<\/strong><\/em> (croak-missyou) is THE real French sandwich. It is not just a ham and cheese sandwich made with two pieces of bread. It is toasted and it is famous. Le croque-monsieur<\/em> is one particular sandwich that has made it’s way from the brasserie and bistro to the microwave in France and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diners take photos of meals exquisitely arranged on the plate. Not many take a photo of a sandwich. These foods, however, do share something in common. They are available in the refrigerated section of the grocery store. I could not believe my eyes when I saw a wide variety of croque-monsieur flavors in the same refrigerated case as Jo\u00ebl Robuchon’s ready made meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably anticipating my lust for French history and knowledge, the metro daily, Direct Matin then CNews,<\/strong> one day answered the question: Literally translated: “Why is le croque-monsieur<\/em> called that?” (Pourquoi le Croque-Monsieur est-il nomm\u00e9 ainsi <\/em>?<\/a>) from 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to 2022 and Watch a well-known television animator, Jamy – Epicurieux <\/a>(a play on words – curious=curieux) explain the history of the croque-monsieur, how to make the sandwich and sits down and reads an excerpt from Marcel Proust about the croque-monsieur. Subtitles are in English using the settings wheel on YouTube. The video also includes a story about the largest croquet-monsieur made in Strasbourg in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legendary\u00a0croque-monsieur<\/em> was born in Paris at the brasserie on Boulevard des Capucines in 1910. The legend began with Michel Lunarca, a bistro owner. Having no more baguette for his crusty sandwich of the day, Monsieur Lunarca decided to bake a loaf of “pain de mie<\/em>\u201d. Lightly baked, the bread keeps the crustiness of the baguette. When one of his customers asked about the origin of the ham, he responded, “C\u00e9st la ‘viande de monsieur’!”<\/em> (\u201cIt\u2019s that guys’ ham!\u201d–probably referring to the local butcher or farmer.) Et Voil\u00e0!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One well known brand of \u201cpain de mie\u201d is Poil\u00e2ne. Poil\u00e2ne’s<\/strong> signature loaf is made of 4 ingredients: sourdough, stoneground wheat flour, water and sea salt from Gu\u00e9rande. When you go to a brasserie for le croque-monsieur<\/em> or madame<\/em> (with the egg on top), I recommend looking on the menu that the brasserie uses Poil\u00e2ne or an equivalent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The free newspaper in the metro, Direct Matin, is a source of the latest morning world and French news. Published weekdays, one column particularly interests me: “Pourquoi….<\/a>“. (Why this, why that … )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occassionally, the why’s are French related: Why is the rooster a symbol of France and not the eagle? or Why is there a prize in the annual galette de rois pastry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you enjoy the periodic translations of the morning “Pourquoi…” column and it brightens you day. #SurLaPlanche<\/a>\u00a0#Jamy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Le croque-monsieur (croak-missyou) is THE real French sandwich. It is not just a ham and cheese sandwich made with two pieces of bread. It is toasted and it is famous. Le croque-monsieur is one particular sandwich that has made it’s way from the brasserie and bistro to the microwave in France.<\/p>\n

Diners take photos of meals exquisitely arranged on the plate. Not many take a photo of a sandwich. These foods, however, do share something in common. They are available in the refrigerated section of the grocery store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[691,1114,687],"tags":[1487,1484,1271,1482,465,1483,1486,805,1485,732],"class_list":["post-10900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-lets-explore","category-life-in-paris-and-france","tag-surlaplanche-jamy","tag-boulevard-des-capucines","tag-brasserie","tag-croque-monsieur","tag-food-2","tag-french-sandwich","tag-guerande","tag-history","tag-poilane","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Croque-Monsieur01.jpg?fit=620%2C465&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10900"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20155,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions\/20155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}