Comments on: Dear America http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2007/11/15/dear-america/ Back once again with the renegade master. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:04:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Savage http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2007/11/15/dear-america/comment-page-1/#comment-44419 Savage Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:57:54 +0000 http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2007/11/15/dear-america/#comment-44419 What he said, and they're thickies. What he said, and they’re thickies.

]]> By: Mr. Target http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2007/11/15/dear-america/comment-page-1/#comment-44358 Mr. Target Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:12:19 +0000 http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2007/11/15/dear-america/#comment-44358 I suspect it's a hangover from way back when the main course was formally paraded around the room before being served - this was known as the "Entrée". There's an alternate explanation, based on the premise that the removal of the roast, or "Roti" (the traditional main) from the menu, and the general lessening of portion sizes in haute cuisine, led to a shift in terminologies for the main course. Entrées were eaten before the roti, and would cover a wider variety of meats, much like today's main courses. America appears to have dropped the roti and gone "Starter, entrée, dessert", while the rest of the world dropped entrée and went "Starter, main (roti), dessert". This guy explains it better than I can: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/FOOD/entree.html Wikipedia also has a bit on it. I suspect it’s a hangover from way back when the main course was formally paraded around the room before being served – this was known as the “Entrée”.

There’s an alternate explanation, based on the premise that the removal of the roast, or “Roti” (the traditional main) from the menu, and the general lessening of portion sizes in haute cuisine, led to a shift in terminologies for the main course. Entrées were eaten before the roti, and would cover a wider variety of meats, much like today’s main courses.

America appears to have dropped the roti and gone “Starter, entrée, dessert”, while the rest of the world dropped entrée and went “Starter, main (roti), dessert”.

This guy explains it better than I can:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/FOOD/entree.html
Wikipedia also has a bit on it.

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