How To Use Potage In A Sentence
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Anglo-Saxons swore by watercress potage to purify their blood every spring, and there are 17 th-century recipes for watercress ‘sallets’, which mix the leaves with oranges, lemons, raisins and pears.
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Heeding this advice, Europeans have long excelled at creating grand kitchen gardens (or potagers, as the French call them) that combine vegetables and ornamental plants in stunning designs.
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A petit flan of onion formed an island in a lake of light, frothy green-pea potage, topped with fresh broad beans, mangetouts and more peas.
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Many vegetables and herbs are highly ornamental, and potagers have become an art form in themselves, with patterns of exotically coloured salad plants and brassicas being displayed within neatly clipped box hedges.
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Charentais = "a type of true cantaloupe from Europe (what Americans call cantaloupes are actually muskmelons.); poh-tow-zhay = pronunciation for" potager "or (kitchen garden)
French Word-A-Day:
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The dinner, from the removal of the _potage_ to the salad, bristled with truffles, and the banker's stomach, aged forty-seven years, experienced the burning and biting of pyrosis.
The Lost Child 1894
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Aunt Marie-Françoise is bringing her gâteau de marron and soup bowls for her daughter's potage ...
Reveillon - French Word-A-Day
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The French call this potager gardening, while our American cousins know it as edible landscaping.
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My secret weapon is hearty vegetable potage; I ate it as a kid in France and have always loved it.
Karine Bakhoum: Souper Tasty Resolutions for 2012
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All the careful grafting of the apple trees, the meticulous cultivation of the potager, everything, in effect, that produces the aesthetic effect we admire today, was done in the dictates of earning a living.
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Evelyn commended the use of young shoots in salads or ‘in a vernal pottage’, while Caleb Threlkeld gave a recipe for an Irish ‘Lenten Potage’, a soup based on alexanders, watercress, and nettles.
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Although the word mole comes from the Nahuatl mulli, meaning sauce or potage, it has been pointed out by culinary anthropologists that very few of the ingredients in mole poblano were indigenous to the New World.
Demystifying Mole, México's National Dish
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Her idea was to run residencies for artists, hold exhibitions and make the garden and potager ecologically productive.
The Times Literary Supplement
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-- Then again there is the PUFFER AND CONDENSER, wherein, if matter be wanting in the work, a prefacial waggon is put before the chapteral pony, the former acting the part of pemican, or concentrated essence, the latter representing the liquid necessary for cooking it; the whole forming a _potage au lecteur_, known among professional men as "soldier's broth.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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It was a tasty vegetable potage accompanied by satisfyingly fresh rolls.
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The plan, though, is to till up the flat ledge in front of the house this fall and convert it all to some semblance of a potager.
Jean's Knitting
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In Genesis, Jacob gave Esau, in exchange for his birthright, a meal of red potage, probably a red lentil stew.
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When in Paris, gentle reader, we always dine at the Trois Frères Provençaux; the little room in blue, remember -- time, six P.M.; potage à la Julienne -- bifteck au vin de Champagne -- poulet à la Marengo -- Chambertin, and St Péray rosé.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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-- Then again there is the PUFFER AND CONDENSER, wherein, if matter be wanting in the work, a prefacial waggon is put before the chapteral pony, the former acting the part of pemican, or concentrated essence, the latter representing the liquid necessary for cooking it; the whole forming a _potage au lecteur_, known among professional men as "soldier's broth.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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The potée then was a sort of antique potage, of varying ingredients, belonging to the bourgeoisie rather than the peasants, and without any special regional connotation.
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_ "Boeuf aux ananas, _pineapple_ paupiettes, potage aux ananas," _Antonio continued gloomily.
The Body Ricardo
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Another plus here is that meals include potage or salad, so you don't feel cheap if you can't spring for an appetizer.
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In fact, call your vegetable plot a "potager" and right away you might find it more charming.
CourierPostOnline.com - News
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However winds blow, or time flies, or spoons stir, our potage, which is now so piping hot, will never get cold.
The Virginians
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Charentais = "a type of true cantaloupe from Europe (what Americans call cantaloupes are actually muskmelons.); poh-tow-zhay = pronunciation for "potager" or (kitchen garden)
French Word-A-Day:
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Many vegetables and herbs are highly ornamental, and potagers have become an art form in themselves, with patterns of exotically coloured salad plants and brassicas being displayed within neatly clipped box hedges.
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Barbara declared afterwards, was magnificent, and plodded her way through bread sponges flavoured with soup, assuring the distressed cook that it was really quite remarkable "potage," and that she had never tasted anything like it before -- all of which, of course, was perfectly true.
Barbara in Brittany
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High-end vegetable patches -- some call them by the French term "potager" -- are also becoming popular spots for entertaining.
The Vegetable Patch Goes Luxe
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To meet the demand, The Green Man is emphasizing the addition of an old and venerable garden enhancement called the potager or French kitchen garden.
THE GREEN MAN FINE LANDSCAPE DESIGN SPRING 2009 NEWSLETTER
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This art is so far advanced in Paris that there are tavernkeepers who will give you something to eat at their places for all prices, for a teston, for an écu, for four, for ten, even for twenty apiece if you wish it, but for twenty écus I hope they will give you manna en potage or roast phoenix, or whatever in the world is most precious.13
Savoring The Past
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Your potager is a FORMAL, rigidly GEOMETRIC garden that is an integral part of your landscape design.
FRENCH KITCHEN GARDENS 2009: MAKE WAY FOR THE POTAGER
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Every garden can teach us something, she says, whether it's the splendid formal grounds of a stately home or the riotous richness of a cottage potager.
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I carry shears on my trips to collect plants for my two-acre potager garden.
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Excuse me; Ce n'est pas grave = It's nothing; la brocante (f) = flea market; la bricole (f) = trifle, trinket; le potager (m) = vegetable garden; la mère (f) = mother
French Word-A-Day:
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We're selling off our birthright for a mess of potage in the form of a few container ships of flat-screen TVs.
Ian Fletcher: Gov. Buddy Roemer Calls for Withdrawal From NAFTA, WTO
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Our meals started with a choice of potage or salad, which the menu claimed was ‘famous.’
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_chapon roti au cresson_; _asperge au branches_; _glace au chocolat_; _caf_; or: _potage au Crcy_; _turbot aux cpres_;
Manners and Social Usages
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It is known that when oats reached Britain, they were already being consumed as a gruel by the Teutons and Gauls and indeed the name porridge derives from the French word, potage - the strikingly similar word porage, which is still in use to this day, is another way Scots spell porridge.
At My Table
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_chapon roti au cresson_; _asperge au branches_; _glace au chocolat_; _caf_; or: _potage au Crcy_; _turbot aux cpres_;
Manners and Social Usages
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Among the dishes served at that March 29 meal was potage brunoise, the recipe for which calls for a bain marie, a cooking technique adopted by Mexican chefs and called a baño maria, used to make a jugo de carne very similar to the meat broth used in making potage brunoise.
The French Influence On Mexican Cooking: La Comida Afrancescada
