00:00 start
00:47 James tells the story of Melba toast
01:50 Villeneuve-Loubet was founded in 1234 and lies in the very south eastern corner of France and almost on the Italian border. Today it has population of around 15,000 people.
03:01 Daniel Galmiche talks of the importance of Escoffier to the food industry.
04:25 The Savoy Hotel was opening in 1889 by Richard D’Oyle Carte using proceeds from the operetta, The Mikado. He also built the Savoy theatre at the same time so he could have a home for this work. He hired Cesar Ritz, Auguste Escoffier and Louis Echenard the year after in 1890.
04:52 By 1897 The Savoy was regarded as one of the greatest in the world.
05:25 In 1893 Escoffier created the dessert Peach Melba in her honour.
06:23 Daniel Galmiche explains how to make Melba toast
07:45 Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism for health, and the Battle Creek Sanitarium emphasized nutrition, enemas, and exercise. Many of the vegetarian foods that Kellogg offered his patients were marketed: Kellogg is best known for the invention of the breakfast cereal known as corn flakes with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.
08:07 Ethel Barrymore eventually won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1944 for her role in the film None but the Lonely Heart. She received 3 further nominations during her career.
09:00 Mrs Cubbison’s Foodsis a company that specialises in stuffing products, they would often use Melba toast in the base of their stuffing s and eventually began making and selling their own in 1925.
10:00 Olly explains the Spanish white wine Txacoli.
10:37 There is no evidence to suggest Neptune had fists of lightning but we know what Olly means!
10:51 Hondarrabi Zuri is a white variety of grape that is native of the Basque Country, Spain. The bunches are small and compact and the berries small, round and golden in colour. The must produces a pale yellow wine, with aromas of citrus fruit, ripe fruit, herbs and flowers.
11:50 Olly introduces the second entry to Wine Rack of the Gods – Domaine Romanée Conti 1990
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15:50 James tells the story of beef Carpaccio
17:46 Countess Amalia Nani Mocenigo died in 1965 of an unrecorded ailment.
18:58 Joe Hurd explains how to make beef Carpaccio and why it is so important.
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