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Cookshops
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5 Annotations
First Reading
Paul Brewster • Link
Per L&M: "[Cookshops] were eating-houses which also sent cooked dishes out, but they were usually not allowed to sell drink."
Sounds like a "carry-out" or for you Brits, "take away".
cum salis grano • Link
additional read:
"...The ordinary normally consisted of plain English fare, but our period also sees the beginning of that fondness for French cuisine which has been a feature of eating-out in London ever since. A passion for things French might simply involve the disguising of bad meat by a bad sauce, as Jonathan Swift discovered in 1710 when he had 'a neck of mutton dressed à la Maintenon, that the dog could not eat'. .."
http://www.escholarship.org/editi…
Second Reading
Autumnbreeze Movies • Link
'Take away' is Australian. I think the Brits say 'carry out'
Bill • Link
Even a colonial like me knows this:
takeaway
1. (chiefly UK, Australia and New Zealand, of food) To be eaten off the premises.
Synonyms
(to be eaten off premises): to go (North America)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tak…
Sjoerd Spoelstra • Link
Going out to eat at a French "ordinary" or cookshop was becoming more and more popular (in 1665) and visiting the French eating-houses in Covent Garden was considered most fashionable
Quote from:
Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-century France and England - Gesa Stedman