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Soon, Pie à la Mode became a standard on menus around the United States. [2] [3] When Charles Watson Townsend died on May 20, 1936, a controversy developed as to who really invented Pie à la Mode. The New York Times reported that "Pie à la Mode" was first invented by Townsend at the Cambridge Hotel in Cambridge, New York in the late 1800s ...
Marriage A-la-Mode [1] [fn 1] is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745, intended as a pointed skewering of 18th-century society. They show the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money or social status, and satirize patronage and aesthetics.
à la mode fashionable with ice cream (ex. Apple pie à la mode) allotment: a parcel of land in a community garden the amount of something allocated to a particular person alternate (adj.) done or occurring by turns; every second, every other ("on alternate weeks") (n.) one that alternates with another
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Pie à la mode: United States Sweet A pie with ice cream on top. Pirog: Russia, Ukraine: Savory or sweet The generic term for pies and pasties in Eastern-Slavic cuisines. The filling for pirog may be sweet and contain quark or cottage cheese, fruits like apples, plums or various berries, as well as honey, nuts or poppy seeds.
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1] à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu". In America "à la Carte Menu" can be found, an oxymoron and a pleonasm. à propos
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The King's Company first performed Marriage à la Mode in London in 1673. William Wintershall played Polydamas, Edward Kynaston was Leonidas, Michael Mohun was Rhodophil, Edward Lydall was Argaleon, Marmaduke Watson was Eubulus and Nicholas Burt was Palamede; the role of Hermogenes was taken by William Cartwright the younger.