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Bake Sales

Photo of a table with baked goods for sale on it

Bake sales (aka “baking sales”, “cake sales”) are events for which people donate items they have baked at home, with the purpose of raising money for a cause. The items are usually sweet, but more savoury items such as bread, sausage rolls in pastry and bottled condiments may also appear. Bake sales can be occasional…

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Buffets

Buffet is a term used to describe a serving method for food. It describes a large selection of foods, hot and cold, placed out on a table for guests to view and select from. A Buffet gives people a lot of choice, letting them actually see food before deciding to have it. This serving technique,…

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Cucina Casalinga

Cucina Casalinga is Italian for “home cooking.” “Cucina”, which means “cooking” (or “kitchen”, but not in this context) is feminine, so casalinga ends with an “a.” If joined with a masculine word, it ends with a “o.” Casalingo Casalingo is a word that means “home” in a descriptive sense, as in “homey” or “homely”, depending…

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Du Jour

A French phrase that means “of the day.” In theory, in cooking, it means either that the chef was able to procure some produce that was either in season or hard-to-get, which couldn’t be placed on the regular menu, or that the chef alternates an item on the menu, such as the soup, for variety…

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Gueridon Service

Gueridon service, food item being flambeed

Gueridon service is a term used in the restaurant business to refer to “trolley service.” Food is cooked, finished or presented to the guest at a table, from a moveable trolley. The classic dishes such as crêpes Suzette, Caesar salad, cherries jubilee, banana flambé and steak tartare were served this way. Gueridon service is less popular now for several reasons. One is that more tables are crammed into restaurant dining rooms now, not allowing enough space between tables for a trolley to move and be positioned

Potluck Suppers

Potluck Meal. Texas. 1920s © Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. UH Digital Library A Potluck Supper is when everyone invited to the meal brings some food, generally already prepared and ready to eat, unless some of it is a food to go on a grill. They are often held at workplaces, churches….

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