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Oct 6, 2013 17:27
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French term
supion
French to English
Other
Cooking / Culinary
Belgian menu
Maigre de ligne à la plancha, ragout de supions aux olives, sur une soupe de roche émulsionné
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | baby cuttlefish |
Mark Nathan
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| 3 | Long-finned squid/Little cuttlefish, bob-tailed cuttlefish, atlantic bobtail, bobtail squid |
Catharine Cellier-Smart
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| 1 | Cuttlefish |
Eren Kutlu Carnì
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Oct 9, 2013 12:16: Mark Nathan Created KOG entry
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Cuttlefish
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Note added at 25 dakika (2013-10-06 17:52:33 GMT)
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Upon my further research on internet, I learned that supion is "jeune/petit seiche"... http://historique.fracademic.com/20424/supion.
So I propose to use cuttlefish for seiche and baby cuttlefish for supion.
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Note added at 25 dakika (2013-10-06 17:52:33 GMT)
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Upon my further research on internet, I learned that supion is "jeune/petit seiche"... http://historique.fracademic.com/20424/supion.
So I propose to use cuttlefish for seiche and baby cuttlefish for supion.
Note from asker:
| I thought that too, Eren, but elsewhere in this menu I have Seiches tout simplement poêlées à l’ail et au persil, which I translated as cuttlefish... |
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Long-finned squid/Little cuttlefish, bob-tailed cuttlefish, atlantic bobtail, bobtail squid
This can refer to two different things which are not quite the same:
http://doris.ffessm.fr/fiche3.asp?temp=0&nomcommunte=&nomcom...
and
http://doris.ffessm.fr/fiche3.asp?temp=0&nomcommunte=&nomcom...
"SUPION n. m. est un emprunt (1769) à l'occitan provençal sipia, supi, du latin sepia (→ sépia, seiche), pour désigner une jeune seiche, en cuisine. Le mot, usuel en français de Provence et de la côte du Languedoc, s'est répandu en France par le vocabulaire de la gastronomie."
http://historique.fracademic.com/20424/supion
Seemingly interchangeably referred to as cuttlefish or squid, it may help if you know which species is being referred to.
"They do marvellous things like locally caught rouget [red mullet] and supion [baby cuttlefish] with saffron risotto, or catch of the day with a flan of seasonal vegetables."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/foodandwineholidays/101681...
"In Provence, baby cuttlefish (supions) are stewed with tomato and herbs"
http://www.catererandhotelkeeper.co.uk/articles/27/9/2013/35...
supion
Southern shortfin cuttlefish. is a name for a type of elongated, small, slim cuttlefish, a cephalopod related to the squid and usually cooked whole.
http://nittygrits.org/supion
"Bobtail squid" is the one that gets the most hits on the internet, but not necessarily in a culinary context.
http://doris.ffessm.fr/fiche3.asp?temp=0&nomcommunte=&nomcom...
and
http://doris.ffessm.fr/fiche3.asp?temp=0&nomcommunte=&nomcom...
"SUPION n. m. est un emprunt (1769) à l'occitan provençal sipia, supi, du latin sepia (→ sépia, seiche), pour désigner une jeune seiche, en cuisine. Le mot, usuel en français de Provence et de la côte du Languedoc, s'est répandu en France par le vocabulaire de la gastronomie."
http://historique.fracademic.com/20424/supion
Seemingly interchangeably referred to as cuttlefish or squid, it may help if you know which species is being referred to.
"They do marvellous things like locally caught rouget [red mullet] and supion [baby cuttlefish] with saffron risotto, or catch of the day with a flan of seasonal vegetables."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/foodandwineholidays/101681...
"In Provence, baby cuttlefish (supions) are stewed with tomato and herbs"
http://www.catererandhotelkeeper.co.uk/articles/27/9/2013/35...
supion
Southern shortfin cuttlefish. is a name for a type of elongated, small, slim cuttlefish, a cephalopod related to the squid and usually cooked whole.
http://nittygrits.org/supion
"Bobtail squid" is the one that gets the most hits on the internet, but not necessarily in a culinary context.
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