France, Spain, Portugal and Italy all have different looking people. The most obvious difference is hair colour, followed by eye colour. People from southern parts of Europe are more likely to have brown or black hair. Also, they tend to have more darker eyes (brown in different shades).
The lardon, onions and garlic being prepared for a Coq au vin. Lardon, also called lardoon, larding needle or larding, is a small strip or cube of pork fat (usually subcutaneous fat) used in a wide variety of cuisines to flavor savory foods and salads. In French cuisine, lardons are also used for larding, by threading them with a needle into meats that are to be braised or roasted.
Lardo is a unique cured pork product produced in Italy. It is made from the thick layer of fat directly below the skin of a pig; the fat is carefully removed and cured in salt and spices so that it can be stored for extended periods of time.At one point, lardo was treated as the poor man's food in Italy, and it was widely disdained.at is notoriously difficult to cure, since it can become rancid when handled poorly. The first stage in the curing of lardo is cutting a number of small holes into the fat and rubbing and salt and spice blend into the holes.