[Sca-cooks] Definition of French Culinary term

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach <kingstaste at mindspring.com>:
>Hi all,
>	Been reading through my Escoffier and La Repertoire (yeah, just light
>weekend cook's reading stuff :)  and trying to figure out the definition of
>a term I find there.  I can't seem to pin it down using either of those
>book's glossaries, or many on-line sites I've checked.
>	The term is Relevés. It is used in this context:
>
>	"Relevés and Entrées of Meats" (Escoffier)
>	and
>	"Entrées, Relevés, Rotis; Relevés and Entrées of Butchers' 
>Meats" (La Rep)
>
>My French/English Dictionary defines the word thusly:
>
>relève - relief; change (of the guard)
>
>rele-vé-vée adj - lofty, elevated; turned up; graded (curve); spicy; m.
>check list; tuck (in dress); (culin) next course; faire le relevé de - to
>survey; to check off
>
>	So, I am confused here.  Anyone have an opinion of what this might be?
>Could this be an example of an actual Remove?!!??

I'd say it's functionally similar to a remove. But as an example of a 
term that's not used, no. I believe it's all in the general family of 
course/service, etc., but saying it's a remove might be like saying 
an automobile is a skateboard because they're both four-wheeled 
vehicles.

Somewhere I have a couple of other [older] books on gastronomy, 
predating Escoffier, things like Curnonsky, Ali-Bab, Alexandre Dumas, 
and, of course, Brillat-Savarin. Let me see if I can find anything 
that clarifies "relevés": Escoffier is already into the age of 
Russian Service (i.e. the serving of filled plates to each diner), so 
things will have started to change by that time.

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