Les Leftovers

sort of a food history blog

Sunday, December 7, 2014

The egg cream mystery solved?

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UPDATE 8-4-2015 - WIKIPEDIA NOTE - I have tried to add some of the documented mentions of "Egg Cream" before the NYC version to...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

MEDIEVAL PASTRIES: Echaudés

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The echaud é was one of the most well-known medieval pastries. The word means “scalded” and the pastry is sometimes called a “scalded past...
Monday, November 24, 2014

MEDIEVAL PASTRIES: Cassemuseaux, petits choux and ratons

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One of the joys of translating Le Grand d'Aussy's texts on pastry is seeing the inventory of various old pastries he mentions: é ch...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Pâte, paste, pasta, pasty, pâté... and pies.

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For those who study bread, it is useful to understand the variants on the French word for dough:  p â te , or in older French,  paste .  Th...
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Jim Chevallier is a food historian with a checkered past and eclectic interests. His most recent book is "Feasting with the Franks; the First French Medieval Food'; this follows a history of French bread - "Before the Baguette: The History of French Bread" - and a small work on the women who delivered bread in Paris and other cities for over a century: "They Came Bearing Bread; the Hard Lives of the Porteuses de Pain'. CHOICE magazine named his "A History of the Food of Paris: From Roast Mammoth to Steak Frites" an Outstanding Academic Achievement for 2019; for more about this history of Parisian food, see parisfoodhistory,com . He has appeared on "CBS Sunday Morning" and other media outlets.
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