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main course

noun as in main dish

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The main course, a whole fried sea bream, served with a ginger fish sauce caramel, peanuts, herbs, lemon, and wild pepper leaves to delicately wrap each fried morsel, truly blew me away.

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So if you fire up the grill this weekend — even attempting one of Ramsay’s barbecue favorites — still, make sunscreen the main course.

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With a sweet tooth that often leads me to scan the dessert menu before the main course, I find myself calculating exactly how much room to save.

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It all comes back to that lesson from Prune: raw produce isn’t just something to snack on while waiting for the main course.

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The main course: sea bass roasted with lemon and herbs.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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