| Is puree a verb or a noun? | | | | Puree, for example, is a common term now and |
| Does sauté mean pan-frying or preparing food | | | | surprise! It is a verb, but as well as a noun. As a verb, |
| in a skillet with oil? | | | | in English, it means several things: mash, pulverize, and |
| Do you know the difference between fillet and filet? | | | | grind. Well, we've got the French to thank for the |
| If you're not sure about the answers to the questions | | | | coining of the more elegant term puree. |
| above, well, don't worry, you're not alone. Many people | | | | Sauté is another French term, which refers to |
| are not so sure about the meaning of different terms. | | | | pan-frying; however, the word has become so |
| In fact, two years ago, manufacturers of your simple | | | | common place that it is also used to refer to preparing |
| cake-mix decided to have box directions rewritten to | | | | food in a skillet with oil. It is no wonder that some refer |
| make them simple enough for those who are not | | | | to skillets as sauté pans. |
| familiar with basic terms used by another generation. | | | | Fillet and filet are also two terms that many people, |
| The insertion of French words to the English language | | | | even writers of menu, get confused about. Fillet is only |
| made cooking terms more complicated. With the | | | | the spelling in English, filet the term in French - a piece |
| dominance of these French people in the area of fine | | | | of boneless fish or meat. For beef tenderloin, it's filet |
| cuisine (another French term!), it is not so surprising that | | | | mignon. This French word became so familiar that |
| numerous terms have been included now in the | | | | Webster's New World Culinary Arts Dictionary defines |
| language of cooking. | | | | filet as the fabrication of a boneless piece of meat, as |
| It is because of this that chefs need to study French in | | | | well as a term for the production of the action |
| many culinary institutions and cooks at homes need to | | | | mentioned above. Fillet, on the other hand, refers to the |
| at least have some kind of acquaintance with a few | | | | act of fish filleting and the side of fish without bones. |
| of them. | | | | |