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Besides this new emphasis on table setting, the most important and enduring development derived from service a la russe was the matching of dishes to wines.

Setting the Table | Edwardian Promenade 2009

Because of this, service à la française was rendered impractical, making room for service à la russe, or service in the Russian style, which was brought to France in 1811 by the Russian ambassador.

Setting the Table | Edwardian Promenade 2009

With this new emphasis on table setting, as with the influx of the newly rich knocking at the doors of the upper classes giving rise to etiquette books, service à la russe created a set of rigid, correct rules for cutlery, china and table adornments.

Setting the Table | Edwardian Promenade 2009

(Although the US title may express Carrère's intentions more accurately – My Life as a Russian Novel – Serpent's Tail has chosen to stick with a translation of the original, more playful title, Un roman russe.)

A Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère – review Josh Lacey 2010

Français · Russie: La crise européenne du lait, vue par la blogosphère russe

Global Voices in English » EU: Russophone Bloggers React to Dairy Farmers’ Protest 2009

A la suite des observations qu'il formula au sujet de cette pièce lors de son retour en Russie, le mot “hooligan” entra dans le vocabulaire de la langue russe, dans lequel il est encore utilisé – de même qu'en anglais – pour désigner un vandale ou un jeune voyou.

Archive 2010-05-01 Rene Meertens 2010

He also replaced the practice of service à la française (serving all dishes at once) with service à la russe (serving each dish in the order printed on the menu).

edouard de pomiane | soups « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Le nom de Boycott ne tarda pas à désigner cette façon d'agir, non seulement en anglais, mais également dans d'autres langues, telles que le français, le néerlandais, l'allemand et le russe.

Archive 2010-05-01 Rene Meertens 2010

He could remember buying charlottes russe (ladyfingers and Bavarian cream) -- which, decades later out of nostalgia, he would pick up for me from a local bakery -- off the back of a wagon on a street near Erasmus High in Brooklyn where he went to school and played lacrosse.

Tom Engelhardt: Borrowed Time: The World at 65 2009

“Bravo, monsieur,” said Richard Marais, nodding and stirring the sugar into his tea à la russe.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009