Talk:Ratatouille

message: should this article include something in it about the new movie that is coming out in June 2007 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatouille_%28film%29 is a link to that article, but i don't know if it would be relevant at all. i personnally think it would, since the movie is named after this dish, but it doesn't really matter Thedrtaylor 02:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead. The film dominates Google's search returns for "ratatouille"; I suspect that most people in the English-speaking world would be surprised to learn that it is a real-life food, with a history, and not something invented for the film. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:26, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ratatouille movie 

message: How about an actual recipe for this dish? --24.249.108.133 15:35, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Recipes belong over on Wikibooks:Cookbook - they are specifically excluded from Wikipedia (see WP:ISNOT#HOWTO) and should be transwikied to the Cookbook if they are seen over here. FlagSteward 21:19, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Try this site . The recipe I've learned in Southern France is slightly different, but hey my wife calls it 'tomato and courgette bake' the version we eat at home and let me tell ya, it is delicious :-) Oooh yes! The ratatouille can be served either hot or cold. It's delicious with eggs: hot, serve with an omelette; cold, serve with cold hard boiled eggs. Uranometria (talk) 19:53, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual Recipe? 

message: As a minor variant of ratatouille, I can't help feeling that Confit byaldi should be merged in here. FlagSteward 21:19, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Confit byaldi]]

message: As I can't find any other references to 'atrankid', I've changed the name of the Maltese version back to kapunata.  I've also linked it to the Maltese cuisine page.  Rojomoke 17:47, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kapunata 

message: "It is usually served as a meal in a lunch setting, with bread. [...] It is most usually served as a side dish." Well, those can't both be true. Which? 86.143.199.183 18:02, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Self-contradictory

message: This section needs to be removed, or at least reconsidered. For one thing, it sounds like pompous culinary school talk, and for another, its flat out wrong. In Provence it is well known that there are two broad styles of cooking Ratatouille. One is similar to the method described (although I have never seen or heard of anyone baking it in a casserole, its a dish fait a la poele), but plenty of cooks, including my mother (who is Provencal) cook everything more or less together. Keep in mind this is a simple peasant dish originally, and best when uncomplicated. If the article gets too specific, its going to get it wrong, simply because this is a generic dish and there are many ways to prepare it, none of them more 'proper' than any other.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.42.211 (talk) 17:11, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't you fix it, then, and discuss the two variants - if you can, with a source.  I already de-reciped it as much as I could (which explains the use of passive tense - better than instructing the reader what to do), but I was hesitant to change what it said because I simply don't know and don't have sources to know if it's correct or not.  Wikidemo 18:01, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Okay I did it but as I'm not a registered user I don't know how long this will last before being changed back. To me, essentially, the former version was much too like an actual recipe. In addition, and most importantly, it was a very specific rendition of a dish that varies quite a bit over the local landscape, and it purported to be the "correct" version, which it isn't.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.42.211 (talk) 20:32, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A well prepared Ratatouille

message: The recipe has been removed. I am looking for an authinic Ratatouille recipe. Please add it to my talk page.  --MahaPanta 02:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recipe removed 

message: This article has been renamed from Ratatouille (food) to Ratatouille as the result of a move request.
 - No opposition to move so Moved. Keith D (talk) 15:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent move 

message: Of the listed ingredients, there's only one vegetable (onions). The rest are all fruits (eggplants, zucchinis, tomatoes, peppers) and herbs (everything else). Should the main page note this? 1/10 listed ingredients being vegetables isn't a good tally for a "stewed vegetable" dish.--18:10, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Please be aware that the article is using culinary terms, not botanical terms, i.e., that a "vegetable" is any plant part that is used in a non-dessert manner, and that a "fruit" is any plant part that is used as a dessert or a sweet snack, i.e., "tomato is a vegetable," and "rhubarb stalk is a fruit."  Having said those, it is not helpful to make such quibbling distinctions.--Mr Fink (talk) 18:52, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Fruit-dominated dish

message: The Greek name for the dish, Tourlou, comes from the Turkish Türlü, which loosely means "assorted" as in assorted vegetables in a dish. Many modern Greek words come down from the long period when the region was part of the Ottoman Empire. When I lived in Turkey I never heard the term "briam" at all. Perhaps Turkish readers could comment on this. Türlü is found in most street restaurants and is widely available in cans. --MichaelGG (talk) 22:59, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Turkish Türlü

message: What's the evidence for ratatouille originating in Nice? The linguistic evidence, i.e. the existence of an Occitan name and the suggestion that the preparation is relatively recent would seem to suggest an Occitan origin rather than a Provençal one. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 17:24, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice?  

message: The current main photo for this article is an Iranian ratatoua (the local variant of ratatouille from what I am able to find online), as stated in the image description.
I presume that this image has been chosen (possibly picked from the french Wikipedia article for ratatouille) because it resembles the confi byaldi that is served at the end of the Disney movie Ratatouille; but it is not a standard ratatouille.
Would it not be better to use an image of a traditional French stew-like (or even the more modern roasted variant) ratatouille? 37.171.60.89 (talk) 13:33, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It was changed in April 2022. I've changed it back to the original photo.  Ttwaring (talk) 13:57, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading photo