à une bouchée

Yesterday evening we enjoyed a relaxed 25 course dinner at Denis Martin in Vevey. If you are facing 25 courses, not all are actually that big. Since the main emphases lies on the taste of the course, to each one specific instruction were given on how it had to be eaten to exploit it to the max. Some of them, like the Lingot d'Or (gold bullion) below, had to be eaten à une bouchée (in one bite).

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tongue-in-cheek

I so hope it was a tongue-in-cheek statement, when a colleague of mine put this in our coffee room...



... however, I don't think it was one by the maniacs who came up with this poster in the first place.

Verve

I first came across the term verve by discovering the British band The Verve in the 90es. I did not even know that this French word is also used in the German language. However, since then, I use it with verve as often as I can.