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French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
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".
Corinne is a female name, the French and English variant of Corina, of ancient Greek origin, [1] derived from κόρη (korē) meaning "beautiful maiden". [2] It became popular following the publication of Corinne, or Italy , an 1808 novel by Madame de Staël .
Persillade (French pronunciation:) is a sauce or seasoning mixture of parsley (French: persil) chopped together with seasonings including garlic, herbs, oil, and vinegar. [ 1 ] In its simplest form, just parsley and garlic, it is a common ingredient in many dishes, part of a sauté cook's mise en place .
In 1833, Marie-Antoine Carême described four grandes sauces (great sauces). [3] In 1844, the French magazine Revue de Paris reported: . Don’t you know that the grand sauce Espagnole is a mother sauce, of which all the other preparations, such as reductions, stocks, jus, veloutés, essences, and coulis, are, strictly speaking, only derivatives?
Sauce is a French word probably from the post-classical Latin salsa, derived from the classical salsus 'salted'. [1] Possibly the oldest recorded European sauce is garum, the fish sauce used by the Ancient Romans, while doubanjiang, the Chinese soy bean paste is mentioned in Rites of Zhou 20. Sauces need a liquid component. Sauces are an ...
Carême calls for the sauce to be served with birds including chicken, [2] thrush, [3] and pheasant, [4] and fish including lemon sole, [5] whiting, [6] and salmon. [7] The author James Bentley calls sauce Périgueux, "an essential ingredient of many dishes and part of the repertoire of every French chef". He comments that it is often ...
The songs are recipes from the 1899 French cookery book La Bonne Cuisine Française (Tout ce qui a rapport à la table, manuel-guide pour la ville et la campagne) ("Fine French Cooking (Everything That Has to Do with the Table, Manual Guide for City and Country")) by Emile Dumont. Bernstein owned the book for many years. [1]