North Americans refer to any elongated pieces of fried potatoes as fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of fried potatoes are sometimes called fries to distinguish them from the more thickly cut strips called chips (while potato chips are called crisps). French fries are known as frites, patates frites or pommes frites in French, a name which is also used in many non- French- speaking areas, and have names that mean “fried potatoes” or “French potatoes” in others. It was an unpromising plant, growing at high altitudes in South America. According to the Oxford Companion to Food, potatoes were “small, misshapen, and knobby tubers, of many colors, and a bitter taste.” There are many varieties of wild potato, some growing at altitudes as high as 1. Some are almost frost- resistant and grow near the snowline. French Fried (1930) Release Info. Full Cast and Crew; Release Dates; Official Sites; Box Office/Business. The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). Find best value and selection for your Vintage Super Star French Fried Popcorn Machine L K search on eBay. World's leading marketplace. Wild potatoes are still eaten in South America, called “native potatoes” or papas criollas. The first Europeans encountered the potato in 1. Browse the fourth issue of BFI Filmmakers magazine; I want to. Get help as a new filmmaker. Find out what BFI Player.Colombia. Spanish forces under Jimenez de Quesada came into a village–the natives had unaccountably fled–and found maize, beans, and little knobby tubers which they called “truffles.” They described these “truffles” as “of good flavor, a delicacy to the Indians and a dainty dish even for Spaniards.” Potatoes were brought to Spain and Italy during the 1. They were small and bitter, and not a popular food. That variety did not grow well in the warm Spanish and Italian climates. Only through careful breeding were larger, less bitter, more adaptable potatoes grown.
Today, the Seed Savers Exchange offers over 6. The word came into Spanish as “patata.” When the later variants (called papas by the natives) were found, they were also called “patata,” and the word made its way into English as potato. The slang usage “spud” derives from the spade- like tool used to dig ’em out. The arrival of the potato in Britain and Ireland is unclear, attributed to both Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake, but generally agreed to be in the 1. The Protestants in northern Ireland and Scotland refused to plant them, since they were not mentioned in the Bible. The Catholic Irish overcame this obstacle by sprinkling them with holy water. Potatoes weren’t popular, despite their reputation as an aphrodisiac. Shakespeare mentions them in this context in The Merry Wives of Windsor. In 1. 78. 4, Count Rumford used potatoes in place of barley in the gruel served to the workhouse inmates, because it was cheaper. He had to conceal from the inmates that he was using potatoes, for fear they wouldn’t eat it. The generally accepted story is that a French army officer named Parmentier was taken prisoner during the Seven Years War (1. Hamburg, Germany. He found that he liked them. After his release, he managed to introduce them to the French court (“Your majesty, the potato. Potato, I have the honour to introduce King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. Introductions all the way round.”) Marie Antoinette reportedly once wore a potato flower as a corsage. But she decided to take a break from eating cake and so ate potatoes. What the queen did was what everyone did, so the potato became fashionable and entered French cuisine. From France, to the world. As an indication of the speed of this change in attitude, during the French Revolution, some 2. Tuileries were turned into potato fields. By the 1. 80. 0s, the Irish had come to depend on the potato almost entirely. A fungus spread totally wiped out the crop in the 1. Also in the 1. 84. Paris. Sadly, we don’t know the name of the ingenious chef who first sliced the potato into long slender pieces and fried them. But they were immediately popular, and were sold on the streets of Paris by push- cart vendors. Frites spread to America where they were called French fried potatoes. Popular conjecture concludes that they came from France and they were fried potatoes, so they were called “French fried potatoes.” The name was shortened to “french fries” in the 1. By the way, the verb “to french” in cooking has come to mean to cut in long, slender strips, and some people insist that “french fries” come from that term. However, the French fried potato was known since the middle 1. OED cites the first use of the verb “to french” around 1. The origin of the name is thus the country of origin French and not the cooking term french. In the U. K., fried fish had been on sale by street vendors since the 1. In 1. 86. 4, a brilliant (but, alas, unknown) Brit teamed French fried potatoes (called “chips” in English) with fried fish, to create the famous and popular fish and chips.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
January 2017
Categories |