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In the restaurant, a menu is a list of food and beverages offered to customers and the prices. A menu may be à la carte – which presents a list of options from which customers choose – or table d'hôte, in which case a pre-established sequence of courses is offered. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to the diners, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or put on a digital screen. Since the late 1990s, some restaurants have put their menus online.


Example Menu from Wikibook:Cookbook
Fried Fish Dinner Menu

A menu for a fried fish dinner, generally based on southern U.S. traditional practices.

Main Course

Fried Fish

Starch

Canned or fresh Green Beans seasoned to your liking, and/or Pinto beans

Vegetables / Salads

Coleslaw, and/or Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad

Dessert

Peach Cobbler or Chess Pie

Accompaniments

Fried potato wedges

Beverage

Iced Tea

Bread

Hush Puppies or Corn Bread

Sauces, Condiments, Miscellaneous

Seafood Cocktail Sauce

Lemon slices or wedges.

Parsley to decorate

Serving Suggestions, Notes for the Cook:

This is intended to be a family meal, very informal. Suitable for serving outdoors on a nice day. If you have suitable equipment and space, you may wish to fry the fish outdoors as well, which can have various advantages over doing it inside.

The fish would, ideally, be catfish, however the fried fish recipe referenced is not the traditional recipe for fried catfish.

The coleslaw recipe is somewhat brief, adjust as needed. Cucumber, Tomato and Onion salad is refreshing and light and may be a good counter-point for the fried items.

Note that Chess Pie really must be made at least a day in advance and refrigerated to set. Better recipes are available if you search around. A slight touch of lemon can be added to the recipe.

To help keep the appropriate themes in mind, imagine, on a personal level, in times prior to refrigeration, a fisher-personage you know, arriving at your house with a LOT of fish, a whole day's catch, all of which must be cooked and eaten very soon or it will go bad. It may be necessary to alert family and friends that they need to come over and help. Keep in the back of your mind the things that you would have on hand at your location at that time of year and branch out from there.

For the domestic chef the menu would be a list of food and beverages to be prepared for a particular meal. Depending on how elaborate one wants to be the menu may include each meal for a period of time or simply for a single special meal.


Reference

Wikipedia:Menu

Wikipedia:Meal preparation

Wikipedia:Outline of meals

Wikipedia:Full course dinner

Wikipedia:Table manners

Wikipedia:Eating utensil etiquette

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