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A multicourse meal or full-course dinner is a meal with multiple courses, typically served in the evening or late afternoon. Each course is planned with a particular size and genre that befits its place in the sequence, with broad variations based on locale and custom. American Miss Manners offers the following sequence for a 14-course meal: [3]
The word is derived from the French word cours (run), and came into English in the 14th century. [2] It came to be used perhaps because the food in a banquet serving had to be brought at speed from a remote kitchen – in the 1420 cookbook Du fait de cuisine the word "course" is used interchangeably with the word for serving.
Usually, cold, hot and savoury, and sweet dishes are served strictly separately in this order, as hors d'oeuvre (appetizer) or soup, as entrée and main course, and as dessert. Dishes that are both sweet and savoury were common earlier in Ancient Roman cuisine, but are today uncommon, with sweet dishes being served only as dessert.
The 7 p.m. event in The Breakers’ Magnolia Room will feature a four-course dinner paired with wines from esteemed French winery Château Cos d’Estournel of the Bordeaux region.
[6] [7] The primo (first course) is usually a filling dish such as risotto or pasta, with sauces made from meat, vegetables or seafood. [8] Whole pieces of meat such as sausages, meatballs, and poultry are eaten in the secondo (second course). [9] Italian cuisine has some single-course meals (piatto unico) combining starches and proteins. [10]
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In some areas, the name for this meal depends on its content, but many English-speakers use "supper" or "Dinner" for this meal, regardless of size. [7] Dinner party – Full course dinner – in its simplest form, it can consist of three or four courses, such as soup, salad, main course and dessert. In formal dining, a full course dinner can ...
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