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The standard United States of America menu, no matter how formal, consists of no more than five (four) courses. You can check with the White House. Practice eating in courses over eating in piles.

1. The first course could be an appetizer. It might precede or substitute as a first course. As a rule the first course is to be soup. It can be fruit-juice or melon. The first course can be omitted. Avoid serving rolls or sliced bread and butter or Olive oil as an intended first course.

2. The second course can be a fish, with maybe a potato item, or at lunch, it may be an egg dish. This course could be omitted.

3. The third or main course (sometimes called the entrée in restaurants) is to be a roasted meat (a Roti,) a fowl, or a vegetable item, and two vegetable side items, (or informally one side item may be a starch item.) At least one non-meat main course item is to be included in each menu offered.

4. The fourth course might be a green salad with cheese. * Salad served before a main course stems from what I call a Mickey D’s mentality: greet guest within 30 seconds, give each something to drink within three minutes, and something to eat within seven.

C’est tres gourmet - not really. The drink before you eat is an aperitif and something to eat before a main course can be a consommé. The purpose of a salad is to push the main course away. This course may be served in lieu of a third course. It may be omitted in favor of dessert.

5. The fifth or last course is to be dessert. Coffee can be served with dessert, after it, or omitted entirely.

 What is served in each course may change with personal preference and pallet of each Chef. In the United States of America this is the main course frame.