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The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
Some loanwords enter Spanish in their plural forms but are reanalyzed as singular nouns (e.g., the Italian plurals el confeti 'confetti', el espagueti 'spaghetti', and el ravioli 'ravioli'). These words then follow the typical morphological rules of Spanish, essentially double marking the plural (e.g., los confetis, los espaguetis, and los ...
Sobremesa (Spanish: “upon the table”) is the Spanish tradition of relaxing at the table after a meal. [1]During sobremesa, conversation is freely had. [1] Depending on the habits of the area or country in question, coffee, tea, or a small liqueur or aguardiente (in a shot glass) is generally served, or a cigar may be smoked.
In the restaurant industry, tableside service may refer to: Service à la russe , where waiters portion and serve food from a sideboard or serving trolley Gueridon service , where waiters prepare foods on a gueridon trolley.
The BBC's Spanish service also has a newsroom in Miami, offices in Buenos Aires and México City, and reporters in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Havana, Caracas, Bogotá, Santiago, Quito, Lima and Madrid. BBC Mundo benefits from the international newsgathering strength of the BBC, which has journalists in more places than any other international ...
Gueridon service offers a higher style of service to the guest. It is similar to service à la russe, where every dish is portioned by a waiter tableside, but usually involves additional cooking steps. Table side procedures include: Flambéing of dishes such as Crêpes Suzette, Bananas Foster, Cherries Jubilee, or Chicago-style Saganaki;
A nightstand, [1] alternatively night table, bedside table, daystand or bedside cabinet, is a small table or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed or elsewhere in a bedroom. Modern nightstands are usually small bedside tables, often with one or sometimes more drawers and/or shelves and less commonly with a small door.
On August 9, 1937, Prieto decided to create a new secret service, the Servicio de Información Militar or SIM, merging all the intelligence services inside the Republican zone. The main goals of the SIM were to combat the Nationalists' intelligence service, the SIPM (Servicio de Información y Policía Militar) , to neutralize the Fifth Column ...