France gives to the world not just a tradition of fine dining, but also its several unique and wonderful regional cuisines. As a result of France being such a geographically diverse nation, its various regions have developed very different cuisines. Its coastal regions eat fish and shellfish, while inland pork, duck, geese, chickens, and rabbits feed the country. France has borders with eight countries (including the principalities of Monaco and Andorra), and the cuisines of its border regions are often influenced by the neighboring country.

In my discussion of the French regional cuisines, I have grouped together some of the political regions, of which there are 21 in Metropolitan France, not including the island of Corsica. Some regions are not as important culinarily, so they have been combined with neighboring regions of more interest.