[Sca-cooks] Course/Remove was RE: Need ideas for someones feast

Terry Decker t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Thu Nov 15 21:44:24 PST 2007


Sorry, no medieval about it.  The earliest use of the word in the context of 
removing and replacing dishes according to my copy of the OED is 1840.

Bear

> I have a semi-visualization for my own use that uses this analogy:
>
> remove is to course
> as
> lecture is to course
>
> A course is a series or intinerary of related somethings, golf holes,
> lectures, dishes and plates, etc.  A remove in medieval cookery (in my
> little visualizing brain) is a variously defined plate/platter/dish of 
> food
> stuff that seems to be removed from the table during a course of food.  A
> course can contain several removes even.  I generally just avoid the whole
> word remove as it confuses me in my own work, and I have a hard time
> defining it succinctly.  I stick with creating courses of dishes and leave
> it at that.
>
> Unfortunately, my courses sometimes end up being wholly removes of
> themselves as I plate the food items all on one serving platter to be
> removed at one time :o(  Whereby the subset defines the entire set.
>
> niccolo difrancesco




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