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Bouillabaisse (/ ˌ b uː j ə ˈ b ɛ s / BOO-yə-BESS, US also /-ˈ b eɪ s /- BAYSS, French: [bujabɛ(ː)s] ⓘ; Provençal: bolhabaissa [ˌbuʎaˈβajsɔ, ˌbujaˈbajsɔ]) is a traditional Provençal fish soup originating in the port city of Marseille.
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups.Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings.
The Algonquin word maskinunga is borrowed into the Canadian French words masquinongé or maskinongé. In English , before settling on the common name "muskellunge", there were at least 94 common names [ 4 ] applied to this species, including but not limited to: muskelunge , muscallonge , muskallonge , milliganong , maskinonge , maskalonge ...
A matelote is the name given in French cooking to a fish stew made with white or red wine. It is normally made with freshwater fish, and may contain a mixture of different fish or a single species. It is traditionally garnished with small onions and mushrooms that have been cooked with the fish.
Before the age of the internet, it was commonly believed, and widely taught in schools in Britain, that the word Toilet was a rather vulgar, impure, corruption of the French word "Toilettes" and that Lavatory was the correct expression to use because it was much closer in meaning to the French the word it was derived from, "Lavatoire", which ...
The name burbot comes from the Latin word barba, meaning beard, referring to its single chin whisker, or barbel. [7] Its generic and specific names, Lota lota, comes from the old French [8] lotte fish, which is also named "barbot" in Old French.
In particular, fish was commonly served on meat days, and whole fish became a classic relevé. Some styles of service even included a "fish course". [22] After the 1820s, the bouilli was no longer routinely served at fine dinners, [23] having been replaced by a wider variety of relevés. Also, in a marked change from earlier practices, cold ...
Caranx was created by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1801 to accommodate a new species he had described, Caranx carangua (the crevalle jack), which was later found to be a junior synonym of Scomber hippos, which in turn was transferred to Caranx. [6]