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In restaurants, à la carte (/ ɑː l ə ˈ k ɑːr t /; French: [a la kaʁt]; lit. ' at the card ') [1] is the practice of ordering individual dishes from a menu in a restaurant, as opposed to table d'hôte, where a set menu is offered. [2] It is an early 19th century loan from French meaning "according to the menu". [3] [4]
Elevator to the Gallows (French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), also known as Frantic in the US and Lift to the Scaffold in the UK, is a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle. The film stars Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to unravel after one of them becomes trapped in an elevator.
A la carte pay television (from the French à la carte, "from the menu"), also known as pick-and-pay, [1] is a pricing model for pay television services in which customers subscribe to individual television channels. This approach contrasts with the prevailing bundling model, where channels are grouped into packages offered on an all-or-nothing ...
1960, New York: The Viking Press, April 29, 1960, hardcover [4]: 84 ; Contents include "Poison à la Carte", "Method Three for Murder" and "The Rodeo Murder"In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #10, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part II, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of Three at Wolfe's Door: "Orange cloth, front cover and spine printed with dark brown.
The final stretch of the Eau Rouge, as it joins the river Amblève near Stavelot. The Eau Rouge is a small, 15-kilometre-long (9 mi) stream in the Belgian province of Liège. It is a right tributary of the Amblève. It starts in the Hautes Fagnes ("High Fens") and ends in Challes, near Stavelot in the river Amblève.
Strépy-Thieu boat lift View upstream Aerial view. The Strépy-Thieu boat lift (French: L'ascenseur funiculaire de Strépy-Thieu) lies on a branch of the Canal du Centre in the municipality of Le Rœulx, Hainaut, Belgium.
À la carte is a French expression meaning "from the card", and is used in restaurant terminology. A la Carte may also refer to: A La Carte (group), a German disco trio formed in 1978; A la Carte (Triumvirat album), 1978; À la Carte (Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung album), 1984; A la Carte (Kenny Burrell album) À la carte, a 2002 EP by Fujifabric
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.