On the cuisine side, it's also the act a few people that made french cuisine popular in the west. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoine_Car%C3%AAme https

On the cuisine side, it's also the act a few people that made french cuisine popular in the west. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoine_Car%C3%AAme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoine_Car%C3%AAme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Escoffier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Escoffier Especially Escoffier did set the ground on how to run a big restaurant kitchen efficiently. I'm sure part of it was France influence, but I wonder how much of it was also due to people who had a big influence in a specific field. They happened to be French, but they could have been from another country as well.