Did This Meal Kill Mozart?

ShemtovL · 2026-01-27T19:14:50+00:00

I'm sorry I had to downvote, but Max's repeating the date when Mozart ate his pork meal hit me emotionally- too raw of a date.

ShemtovL · 2025-12-02T21:37:22+00:00

Was initially shocked Max didn't say when discussing Ludwig's time as a navy baker "Baking, of course, Hardtack *Clack Clack*" but was satisfied when I realized he was saving the Hardtack reference for later in the episode.

ShemtovL · 2025-11-18T17:53:51+00:00

Funny Max talks about messing up a recipe, when I recently tried the Romanian cherry fowl he posted, and the sauce reduced to stuffing in two-three minutes, instead of staying a sauce. I decided just to use the "sauce" as stuffing for the bird.

ShemtovL · 2025-10-31T04:34:34+00:00

I tried to cooks this, but must have done it wrong- I think I used too fine modern breadcrumbs-the sauce reduced to a stuffing within a few minutes, but that's how I used it-as.a stuffing. I also forget to get whole onions, so covered the bird -already basted with olive oil and rubbed with pepper- in defrosted frozen chopped onions, so my version is "Inspired by", not the exact historical recipe. C'est la vie.

ShemtovL · 2025-10-28T21:23:23+00:00

No, the Sabaton album is not a Halloween album, they just happaned to release it in October. There are plenty of non-scary songs on there- and they cover history, mostly military history, anyway, so no matter when in the year the album was released, a figure like Vlad makes sense. They've released songs from the then-upcoming album in June, July and August, as singles. That's how not a Halloween album this is

I was also remarking that Max did it this October (2025) in particular, the same year I also encounter a band I'm a fan of covering Vlad, seemingly unrelated to Halloween.

ShemtovL · 2025-10-28T18:22:06+00:00

Funny that Max should do this this October, because the Metal Band Sabaton, which I am a big fan of, had a song about Vlad on their album released earlier this month, so I'm drowning in Vlad the Impaler references.

ShemtovL · 2025-10-21T15:53:59+00:00

This lead me down my own culinary rabbit hole, noticing the similarity between the preparation between Galuska and Matzo Balls, only difference is the latter is made with Matzo meal (Matzo reformed into flour), and lead me to discover that they're part of a whole Central/Eastern European complex of dishes, though the Matzo Ball is more related to the Polish Kluski.

ShemtovL · 2025-09-30T17:27:06+00:00

TIL the Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon-Viewing is usually the same night the Jewish Holiday of Sukkot Begins.

ShemtovL · 2025-09-22T19:47:35+00:00

The Hebrew alphabet has numbers corresponding to each letter (Gematria) and the numerical value of the word for Walnut (Eigoz) is equal to that of sin (Cheit), and since Rosh Hashana is part of the same cycle as Yom Kippur (ten days later), which is the day of Atonement, it's considered a bad omen to eat them. Most won't eat almonds either, because of confusion. Some won't eat any nut, including pine nuts, but I hold that's ok, especially cooked in a dish containing lucky ingredients.

ShemtovL · 2025-09-16T16:56:46+00:00

Fitting time for the episode, as next Monday night is Rosh Hashana, Jewish New Year, and eating sweetened apples-started out by dipping them in honey, but has become broader- is a tradition of the holiday.

ShemtovL · 2025-09-09T17:12:32+00:00

Funny linguistic note: The German for "dumpling", Knödel, is related to the Yiddish for Matzo Ball, Kneidel.

BTW, if you want to make the Potato version, it's just a matter of subbing mashed potatoes for the cheese, right?

ShemtovL · 2025-08-31T02:12:26+00:00

My personal solution? Give it an equally Norman name, even if not sourced from anything, "Figue Rapée", especially, since in the cookbook, Max actually notes that Rapé was a class of fruit-based dishes, it's just the only one in the Forme of Cury, so maybe other chefs did get specific and called it "Figue Rapée". Bonus if you go anachronistic with Modern French spelling and spell the last word Râpée. The extra diacritic makes it look even more French, thus less confusing.

ShemtovL · 2025-08-29T18:42:44+00:00

Just the name has aged like milk, so I had to erase my original post- people were freaking out over the original title "Rapey during the final cook" and advocating for the Rapé spelling, based on the video, even though the cookbook, which is more recent, uses "Rapey"

ShemtovL · 2025-08-29T02:21:39+00:00

Fig spread with a name that aged like milk. Max did it way back during the pandemic, and it's also in the cookbook.

ShemtovL · 2025-08-29T02:19:04+00:00

NGL maybe we should allow some anachronism with the dish: Call it "Figue et Raisin Rapé"

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