Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo signs a crab shell, and the origin of the word cutlet
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris with newly sprouted presidential ambitions, signs a crab's shell. She writes: Vive La France! At least it is not a half-eaten cutlet, that is, a steak haché (if you ask a waiter in France for a cutlet, and the word really was borrowed from French, in the eighteenth century, you will be brought meat on the rib, which we call a chop, and to get a cutlet like Mum makes back in Russia, you must ask for steak haché, that is, minced steak; in Russian, too, the word kotleta originally meant meat on the bone, that is, on the rib, from the French côtelette, meaning "ribbed", but in the twentieth century the name came to be given to the dish we all know, made from minced meat). Incidentally, in Paris under Anne Hidalgo the order is roughly that of this table: everything is strewn with newspapers and household waste. But in general, NO COMMENT
