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hrj(For previous posts in this series, see items tagged with 'messisbugo'.)
As I mentioned in the last installment, the contents of the numbered courses and their relationship to each other is complicated. But before I skip over to the removal (with the promise to come back to the numbered courses in detail), I thought I should lay out the general structure. There are 3-5 numbered courses. Of the 6 menus, 3 have 3 courses, 2 have 4 courses[1], and 1 has 5 courses. There are certain dishes that are either universal or nearly so across all the menus in a particular course, other dishes where a general category-slot seems to be near-universal, and then the option for other dishes with greater variability. When the corresponding dishes are examined, it appears that the larger set of courses is not due to an additional set of templates, but rather to repetitions of the existing templates, especially from the 2nd and 3rd courses. That is, a 5-course banquet follows a template more along the lines of “course 1, course 2a, course 2b, course 2c, course 3”.
And that’s about as much as I want to get into until I do the detailed analysis. Now on to the Removal.
[1] As mentioned previously, in one case the “pre-course” is labeled as the first course, for a total of 5 numbered courses in that menu, but they only count for 4 “numbered courses” in terms of the abstract structure.
As I mentioned in the last installment, the contents of the numbered courses and their relationship to each other is complicated. But before I skip over to the removal (with the promise to come back to the numbered courses in detail), I thought I should lay out the general structure. There are 3-5 numbered courses. Of the 6 menus, 3 have 3 courses, 2 have 4 courses[1], and 1 has 5 courses. There are certain dishes that are either universal or nearly so across all the menus in a particular course, other dishes where a general category-slot seems to be near-universal, and then the option for other dishes with greater variability. When the corresponding dishes are examined, it appears that the larger set of courses is not due to an additional set of templates, but rather to repetitions of the existing templates, especially from the 2nd and 3rd courses. That is, a 5-course banquet follows a template more along the lines of “course 1, course 2a, course 2b, course 2c, course 3”.
And that’s about as much as I want to get into until I do the detailed analysis. Now on to the Removal.
[1] As mentioned previously, in one case the “pre-course” is labeled as the first course, for a total of 5 numbered courses in that menu, but they only count for 4 “numbered courses” in terms of the abstract structure.
