garden-variety dick > wrote:

>A pot-au-feu is a french beef stew. Where do you get the 'pot roast'
>idea from?

Some people use pot roast and stew as almost synonymous terms.

To me, it's a stew if you serve the whole thing including the
liquid and vegetables as is out of the pot. It's a pot roast if
you're serving (at least primarily) the meat ingredient.

Steve