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Cocottes (or coquettes) were high class prostitutes in France during the Second Empire and the Belle Époque. [1] They were also known as demimondaines and grandes horizontales . [ 2 ] Cocotte was originally a term of endearment for small children, but was used as a term for elegant prostitutes from the 1860s. [ 3 ]
A couscoussier (Arabic: كسكاس, romanized: kiskās) is a traditional double-chambered food steamer used in North African and Berber cuisine (particularly, the cuisines of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco) to cook couscous. [1] This container is composed of: from a lower part, the pot, usually containing water, vegetables, red or white meats.
A kiskas (French: couscoussier), a traditional steamer for couscous. In modern times, couscous production is largely mechanized, and the product is sold worldwide. This couscous can be sauteed before it is cooked in water or another liquid. [29] Properly cooked couscous is light and fluffy, not gummy or gritty.
Traces of cooking vessels similar to couscoussiers have been discovered in graves dating back to the 3rd century BC, which belonged to the Berber kings of Numidia. These archaeological findings were unearthed in Tiaret and Kabylia, Algeria. [9] [10] The Cirta Museum in Constantine, Algeria, preserves these historical utensils. [11]
Cocotte may refer to: French oven, cocotte in French; Œufs cocotte, French term for shirred eggs; Montagne Cocotte, mountain in Mauritius; Cocotte (prostitute), a type of French prostitute; Cocotte en papier paper fortune teller
Minute (French:) was a weekly newspaper, initially right-wing but later far-right, circulated in France from 1962 to 2020. Its editorial position is satirical and conservative . According to figures provided by the paper's management, it had a circulation of 40,000 copies a week in 2006.
Christian Constant was born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne in the region of Midi-Pyrénées.He began his career as a chef in 1988 at the Hôtel Crillon in Paris.Afterwards he was appointed chef at the Hôtel Ritz.
The challenge is generally given as eating six saltines in a single minute, although the target is sometimes set at five or seven. [3] [4] Most people are able to eat at least two saltines without water, although patients affected by Sjögren's syndrome lack the saliva necessary for even this many. Doctors may use this test, the "cracker test ...