Friday, May 24, 2013

LET HIM STEW

Laissez-le mariner
For comfort and emphasis famous French cat, Pompon, poses on an oven mitt to illustrate another great French colloquialism, laissez-le mariner. Let him stew in his own juice.

Vocabulary
mariner:  to marinate
laisser mariner:  in cookery, leave to marinate; figuratively, leave to stew in one's own juice
une manique:  an oven glove or mitt


©2013 P.B. Lecron

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