(1) Another plus here is that meals include potage or salad, so you don't feel cheap if you can't spring for an appetizer.(2) It was a tasty vegetable potage accompanied by satisfyingly fresh rolls.(3) In Genesis, Jacob gave Esau, in exchange for his birthright, a meal of red potage , probably a red lentil stew.(4) Anglo-Saxons swore by watercress potage to purify their blood every spring, and there are 17 th-century recipes for watercress ‘sallets’, which mix the leaves with oranges, lemons, raisins and pears.(5) coarse, spicy potage(6) Our meals started with a choice of potage or salad, which the menu claimed was ‘famous.’