House of Peine (23 page)
Authors: Sarah-Kate Lynch
| amies | friends |
| amitié | friendship |
| amour | love |
| assemblage | champagne blending process |
| au revoir | goodbye |
| automne | autumn |
| à votre santé | salutation meaning “to your health” |
| | |
| barriques | barrels |
| blanc de blancs | champagne made from chardonnay |
| blanc de noirs | champagne made from pinot noir and/or pinot meunier |
| | |
| bonjour | hello |
| Bonne Année | Happy New Year |
| boucherie | butcher shop |
| brut | dry, also dry-style champagne |
| bûche de Noël | traditional creamy chocolate log |
| | |
| cabillaud | cod |
| ça va? | how’s it going? |
| cave | cellar |
| Champenois | person or people of Champagne |
| champenoise | champagne-style (lower case c) |
| charcuterie | pork meat |
| chaufferette | burning pot that wards off frost |
| chocolat chaud | hot chocolate |
| citron | lemon |
| cochelet | end-of-harvest party |
| cochon | pig |
| compote | stew (usually of fruit) |
| crayères | underground cellars connected by tunnels |
| croque monsieur | cheese toasted sandwich |
| cru | official Champagne villages |
| cuvée | vat of wine or blend of wine |
| | |
| débourrement | bud burst |
| déception | disappointment |
| dédicace | dedication |
| dégorgement | process to remove sediment from bottles |
| désespoir | despair |
| Deux Chevaux | make of car also known as 2CV |
| dosage | added sugar |
| | |
| enterrement | funeral |
| espoir | hope |
| été | summer |
| | |
| Fête de Saint Vincent | St Vincent’s Day |
| Fin | The End |
| financiers | a style of French cake |
| floraison | flowering |
| fraternité | sisterhood |
| | |
| gendarme/s | police officer/s |
| glossaire | glossary |
| grandes marques | major champagne houses |
| gratin dauphinois | French potato dish |
| grosses bises | big kisses |
| gyropalette | mechanical riddling machine |
| | |
| hiver | winter |
| invité/invitée | guest (male/female) |
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| joie | joy |
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| kugelhopf | nutty cake from Alsace |
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| madame | title for married woman |
| madeleines | little sponge cakes |
| mademoiselle | title for young woman |
| magret | cut of duck meat |
| mairie | town hall |
| maman | mother |
| mec | bugger |
| merde | shit |
| métro | underground railway in Paris |
| mille-feuille | yummy custardy pastry |
| mousse | bubbles |
| must | fermenting grape juice |
| | |
| nuage | cloud |
| | |
| ooh là là | ooh là là |
| | |
| pain au chocolat amande | almond and chocolate pastry |
| pain au levain | sourdough bread |
| pain d’épice | gingerbread cake |
| partager | sharing |
| pastis | popular French alcoholic spirit |
| pâtisserie | cake and pastry shop |
| pâtissière | pastry chef or baker |
| peignoir | bathrobe |
| peine | sorrow |
| pétanque | French bowling game |
| pétiller | sparkling |
| Petite Noix | little walnut |
| plus d’invités | more guests |
| pommes | apples |
| potée champenoise | Champagne-style stew |
| printemps | spring |
| pupitres | inverted-V-shaped wooden racks |
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| quatre quarts | four quarters |
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| racine | root |
| remerciements | acknowledements |
| remeurs | riddlers |
| remuage | riddling or twisting of bottles to move sediment |
| réveillon | Christmas Eve feast |
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| sabayon | sauce sometimes made with champagne |
| saints de glace | three particular days in May when frost can do terrible damage |
| saveur | taste |
| sommelier | wine waiter |
| soupçon | tiny bit |
| stampes | crates for carrying grapes |
| | |
| tabac | bar or cafe |
| truite ardennaise | French trout dish |
| | |
| vendange | harvest |
| veraison | changing colour of grapes |
| veuve | widow |
| vigneron/s | winemaker/s |
| voilà | lo and behold |
| volonté | willpower |
A tireless researcher, Sarah-Kate Lynch trailed the byways of Ireland for her first novel,
Finding Tom Connor
; examined the cheeses of the world for her second,
Blessed Are
; perfected French sourdough bread for her third,
By Bread Alone;
and frequented the eateries of New York and Venice for her fourth,
Eating with the Angels
. While working on
The House of Peine
she drank a lot of champagne. Sarah-Kate lives in Auckland with a large recycling bin and her husband Mark Robins. You can visit her website at
www.sarah-katelynch.com.
National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Lynch, Sarah-Kate.
House of Peine / by Sarah-Kate Lynch.
ISBN-13: 978-1-86941-798-7
ISBN-10: 1-86941-798-4
l. Title.
NZ823.3—dc 22
A BLACK SWAN BOOK
published by
Random House New Zealand
18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland, New Zealand
www.randomhouse.co.nz
First published 2006
© 2006 Sarah-Kate Lynch
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
ISBN 10: 1 86941 798 4
ISBN 13: 978 1 77553 366 5
Design: Elin Bruhn Termannsen
Cover design: Sciascia Brothers Advertising
Author photo: Ryan Pratt
Printed in Australia by Griffin Press
