
Extract the answer to the question from the following context.
Question: During the 16th and 17th centuries, __ cuisine assimilated many new food items from the New World.
Context: With the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), Spain ceded the northern part of Catalonia to France, and soon thereafter the local Catalan varieties came under the influence of French, which in 1700 became the sole official language of the region.

French
