About the two Cultures

Food Art Major events

Navajo Food

It exists a lot of navajo recipes, mainly in the reservation. The traditional food of Navajo people is: bread, with fry bread and tortillas, meat with sheep (mutton) and cow (beef), vegetables with corn and beans, and fruits with apples, watermelon, grapes. Fry Bread is probably the main bread used in a lot of recipes by the Navajo people.

With the americanisation of youngers generations of Navajo people, other food specialities appeared, notably the navajo burger and the navajo Taco. The navajo burger looks like an american burger, but instead of the usual bread, it is fry bread. The navajo taco is made with fry bread in which there are salad, tomatoes, onions, chili, beans and meat.

Navajo Taco

French Food

France food is mainly renowed in the world for its cheese, with its "baguette" and its wine.

There are more than 300 cheeses in France, in which the most famous are: "camembert, fromage de chèvre, emmental, roquefort, comté", etc.

It also exists plenty of different breads, and each country has its own speciality: "baguette, pain de campagne, pain au chocolat, pain aux céréales, croissant", etc.

Concerning wines, we distinguish them by the french country which they came from. Thus, there are notably wines of Bordeaux ( country in thesouth west of France), wines of Bourgogne and Alsace (east), wines of Provence and Languedoc-Roussillion (south east).

But France has more than cheeses, breads and wines. Every country has a speciality, for example: "boeuf bourguignon (in Bourgogne), fondue savoyarde (in Savoie), confit de canard (in the Landes), bouillabaisse (in Côte d'Azur)", etc.

France has a culinary history such rich in traditions that it is impossible to present it in only a few sentences. It is a gastronomical buffet where every country has its specialities, its products and its culture...

Cheese

Bread

Canard

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Navajo Art

Sand painting Oil painting - Virgil J. Nez
Lady in Shiprock
Sand Painting Lady in Shiprock - Virgil J. Nez

Flutist - Carlos Nakai



French Art

Painter - Fernand Léger
(La Joconde aux clefs)
Painter - Paul Cézanne
(Les joueurs de cartes)
La Joconde aux clefs - Fernand Léger Les joueurs de cartes - Paul Cézanne
Singer - Johnny Halliday
Singer - Jean Jacques Goldman
Johnny Halliday Jean Jacques Goldmnan
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Navajo Major Events

One of the most important event in the Navajoland is the Fairs.

The mains fairs take place:

  • 7th-11th September: Window Rock
  • September: Albuquerque
Navajo Nation Fair

Others Majors events in Navajoland:

  • Fourth of July
  • Halloween
  • Christmas
  • Rodeos
Rodeo

French Major Events

In France, there are several historic events:

  • 1st of May: Labour day
  • 8th of May: victory over the Nazi Germany
  • 14th of July: National Festival
14th of July

Moreover, there are a lot of Christian events:

  • 1st of January: first day of the year
  • The Easter Monday: resurrection of Jesus-Christ
  • The Ascension Day: rise of Jesus ressuscity
  • Christmas: birth of the Christ

Then, there are also events linked to the french culture:

  • 21st of June: music holiday
  • End of June: cinema holiday
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