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peasant leftovers that became Provence's edible sunset and a rat's Oscar campaign
means A French Provençal stew of summer vegetables — typically eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and garlic — slow-cooked in olive oil and herbs.
from From French, built on the verb 'touiller,' to stir or toss together (itself from Latin 'tudiculare,' to stir or crush). The 'rata-' prefix is the slangy, slightly mocking part — old French military and worker slang where 'rata' meant a rough, chunky stew of whatever was on hand. So the name fairly translates to something like 'stir-up' or 'tossed-together mess,' a humble word for a humble dish — the Niçoise kitchen later turned that mess into Provence on a plate.
- name origin
- From French touiller, meaning to stir up or toss
- poverty food
- Born as a way to use surplus summer vegetables
- no recipe
- Cooks fiercely argue over layering versus stewing
- pixar boost
- 2007 film sent French restaurant orders soaring
- film version
- That fancy spiral dish is technically confit byaldi
pixar animated film — 2007 movie about a rat chef in paris that won the academy award for best animated feature