French Cuisine eh!..

[Tomcat]

daily Telegraph 22 feb

Just reading the paper this morning and some Detective name Herve Bouchard had been studying and investigating the so called culinery genius of his countryman.

With secret video cameras installed and rummaging around dustbins he found that most of the so called fancy places were actually serving up ready made meals from a microwave and vegatables that were frozen during the last ice age. One factory in paris has 800 staff making these microwave meals for the so called finer eaterys

You can imagine " bonjour, oh yes and our compliments to Claude , how deos he do it , magnificat "



" Wanted ; Chef; Paris Five Star Hotel
  "experience with BA/ Quantas Economy Class prefered"

[manarak]

"so called fancy places"
no way the fancy places serve ready made stuff.

but I can imagine a lot of the "middle of the field" places do.

I just found this:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standar....-all.do

ok, no "fancy places" there, all right

[strocube]

There is only one man who can crack this case.
"I shall glide through the culinary world like a shadow."

[manarak]

but only if helped by Cato !

[Bumpa STIKKA]

The French even have a phrase for it... mise en place (MEEZ ahn plahs)

We call it TV Dinner.

[guydesavoy]

stick to German

[fleeing]

(Bumpa STIKKA @ Feb. 23 2010,00:52) The French even have a phrase for it... mise en place (MEEZ ahn plahs)

directly translated as 'setting in position' as any idiot who has worked with food would know.
Without getting too technical, it's about preparing your ingredients on those rare occasions when your microwave dies or Tescos is sold out of tasty pre-fab 'food' 

We call it TV Dinner.

Surely you mean haute cuisine