When you first sit down for a meal in a French restaurant, the server will ask if you’d like to start with an apéritif. This is a refreshing alcoholic drink, other than wine, that stimulates the appetite. Apéritifs were historically composed of a base of certain plants meant to help digestion, like aniseed. A digestif is for the end of the meal and apparently also helps with digestion. These are all possibly excuses to eat more- but I’m not arguing with that!
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