Series 1 Episode 5 – Show Notes
00:00 Introduction
00:53 James introduces Baked Alaska
01:25 Daniel Galmiche explains how to make Baked Alaska
01:44 Sightings of a ‘roasted ice’ dish were recorded in Peking in around 1850. A lump of ice is taken upon a sieve, and after being quickly enveloped in a sort of paste made of sugar, eggs, and spices, is plunged into a panful of boiling pork fat or lard. The point is then to serve it up before the ice has time to melt. What may be the peculiar attraction of this dainty dish it would be hard to say, for though frozen inside, it burns the mouth when first tasted.
02:00 The word Meringue is first seen in print in Francois Massialot’s cookbook of 1692
03:06 Caréme published several books on cooking but most notably his L’Art de la Cuisine Française (5 vols, 1833–34), of which he had completed three before his death.
06:30 In 1791 Thompson was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire; he took the name “Rumford” for Rumford, New Hampshire, which was an older name for the town of Concord where he had been married, becoming Reichsgraf von Rumford.
08:00 Olly talks about the joys of sherry
13:10 Rasputin was a hit for Boney M in 1978 it reached no.2 in the UK and was a top ten hit in 11 countries around the world.
13.24 Email: foodgrouppodcast@gmail.com
14:00 Olly introduces Penfolds Grange 1951
14:19 Sir Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham played for Somerset and England from 1974 – 1992. He later became a professional footballer playing for Yeovil and Scunthorpe United.
17:54 Daniel explains how to make Bananas Foster or flambé.
19:03 Bananas are botanically a berry. The word banana is thought to be of West African origin, possibly from the Wolof word banaana, and passed into English via Spanish or Portuguese.
20:00 Paul Blangé (1900 to 1977) was the Executive Chef at Brennan’s Restaurant at 417 Royal Street in New Orleans starting in 1946. Originally from the Netherlands, Blangé’s full Dutch name was Paulus Lodivicus Blangé.
21:29 New Orleans was the home of America’s first big mafia family, the Matranga’s right up to the introduction of prohibition in 1920. By 1947 the city was run by Carlos Marcello who was linked to the assassination of President Kennedy through his rumoured association with Jack Ruby but the Warren Commission found no direct link between them.
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