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"Parmentier" occurs in a recipe, it's a signal that there will be potatoes in it.
The Perdue Chicken Cookbook Mitzi Perdue
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As my Duck Parmentier was placed before me, I did realize that the selection of dishes on the menu were typically products easily found in the frozen foods section of any supermarket in the same form and appearance, the same list on menus in so many bistros across the country and I was sure that the Parmentier on my plate was industrially prepared.
Jamie Schler: Eating And The Law In France: In The News Jamie Schler 2012
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But I will splurge one day this month and have Candy's Potage Parmentier because I can't resist a good soup!
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Only the efforts in the 18th century of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, a pharmacist with a flair for promotion, really sold the French public.
Single Servings Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011
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Kuznetsova next plays the Uzbeki Akgul Amanmuradova, who beat France's Pauline Parmentier, 6-3, 7-5.
Elena Baltacha out of US Open after defeat by Svetlana Kuznetsova 2011
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As my Duck Parmentier was placed before me, I did realize that the selection of dishes on the menu were typically products easily found in the frozen foods section of any supermarket in the same form and appearance, the same list on menus in so many bistros across the country and I was sure that the Parmentier on my plate was industrially prepared.
Jamie Schler: Eating And The Law In France: In The News Jamie Schler 2012
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Once I read about Powell's disastrous Potage Parmentier, I was compelled to look up the original recipe.
Archive 2008-10-01 Sarah Lenz 2008
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Once I read about Powell's disastrous Potage Parmentier, I was compelled to look up the original recipe.
Crepe Happy Sarah Lenz 2008
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Thanks also to the family of Guillaume Parmentier and Adeline Gouarné.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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May 29+ Pauline Parmentier, 637Mariya Koryttseva, 4655: 00
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Monsieur Potatohead
September 28, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word Parmentier
"The potato needed more than Royal Society support to gain popularity. Rumors arose that its tubers spread leprosy or, more pleasantly, were an aphrodisiac. Its amazing yield recommended potatoes to King Frederick the Great of Prussia, who ordered his people to plant them during the famine of 1744, but it was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier who finally delivered the tuber from suspicion. Forced to eat nothing but potatoes while a Prussian prisoner during the Seven Years' War, he became an advocate of the despised vegetable. When he returned to his vocation as a pharmacist in Paris, Parmentier mounted one of the world's most successful advertising campaigns. He put security guards around his potato plot, then removed them when he thought he had sufficiently intimated their value to potential (and hungry) thieves. He entertained guests with all-potato menus. Thomas Jefferson, then the United States foreign minister to France, supposedly brought back the recipe for French fries, which he served over the next decade at the White House."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 125-126
December 28, 2016