Saturday, 29 November 2008

Gratinated?

Beyond the fact that all the obvious / good names for a food / service blog were taken, my folks and I used to marvel at the mangling of the English language, particularly when it came to menuese...there he goes again, you'll say

Fact is, menu English or French or...isn't like regular language. It's as descriptive as the chef / author wants to be, and as commercial as any marketeer wants to make it. So I'd be willing to bend. But "gratinate" an Anglicized gratinee as in Gratinee a l'oignon or French Onion Soup seems to have migrated its way onto a menu one day, and Alan Lewis and I would laugh ourselves silly for at least twenty years.

So gratinated the blog is...food, wine and service under the bright light of the salamander, tasty but not burnt

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