fraise des bois

plural fraises des bois · alternative fraise du bois

1. The wild strawberry, the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca).

   “It’s November and you are eating fraises des bois . . .”

   2009, Andrew Friedman, “Three Months in Yountville”, in Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d’Or Competition, Free Press, →ISBN, page 115

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   “A lot of fruit, too, has an enormously fugitive flavour — a fraise des bois picked fresh tastes completely different from the ones which have probably come from somewhere like Chile and been chilled.”

   1998 May 22, “All in the best possible taste: Conran to design Standard garden for Chelsea next year”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7

   A delicate porcelain bowl arrived filled with water or so it appeared, a few fraise^([sic]) des bois and blueberries floating on top.

   2000 July 30, Marilyn McDevitt Rubin, “At some unforgettable meals, the food paled compared with the drama”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 73, number 365, page 14