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"SportKite1" > wrote in message
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: >From: (Jack Tanner)
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: >I know the french have a word for this, and I imagine it's
: >international cooking vocabulary by now -- if you take a zucchini (or
: >cucumber, or similar veggie) and cut off strips of skin, such that you
: >have an alternating stripe pattern of skin and flesh around the
: >vegetable, what is that called?
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: Garde Manger
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: Ellen
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:

I had not met this term before so I rushed off to look it up. Most sources
say it means a larder of some sort or one who controls same. This doesn't
seem to make sense in the context. Ellen is there something that I am
missing here?

David