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- T1 EP.1 — Understanding Culture through Cooking23 de abril de 202026minWhat can you learn about different cultural groups of people through the lens of their cookbooks? A lot, as Professor Ken Albala illustrates by looking at two chicken recipes 200 years and a continent apart. Learn to cook a recipe from the 1748 French cookbook Le Nouveau Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois, and another from The Can-Opener Cookbook of 1953.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.2 — Ancient Rome: Cooking with Apicius23 de abril de 202040minAre the recipes in De re coquinaria (the oldest complete recipe book in the Western tradition) bizarre and disgusting, or do they reflect a time of elegance and luxury? Historians have expressed a gamut of opinions. As you explore its sala cattabia, minutal of apricots, and botellum, you might be surprised to find three delicious, and even somewhat familiar, dishes.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.3 — Imperial China: Soybeans and Dumplings23 de abril de 202032minExamine the Chinese Wei dynasty’s Qi Min Yao Shu, an encyclopedic manual containing “essential techniques to benefit the people,” and learn about Chinese agricultural practices going back to antiquity. Explore the fermentation practices of the time, using both bacteria and mold, and follow a scaled-down recipe to create an intensely flavored fermented black bean dish.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.4 — Medieval Egypt: Chickpeas and Phyllo Dough23 de abril de 202026minFrom 14th-century Egypt, explore recipes that reflect the interchange between the many cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean of the time. Learn to make the sweet Byzantine specialty known as himmas kassa, and a super light and flaky phyllo dough stretched to the size of a table, just as Professor Albala remembers his grandmother doing.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.5 — Feast like a Viking with Meat and Beer23 de abril de 202027minExplore the oldest-known cookbook in Medieval Europe, the 13th century’s Libellus de arte coquinaria. With its terse recipes of meat, fowl, fish, and sauces, it seemed to be written for a noble audience, not the common cook. Learn to make “hunter-style” fish pie with animal bones, as well as beer (much safer than drinking water at the time).Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.6 — Medieval France’s Touch for Sugar and Spice23 de abril de 202041minMeet Guillaume Tirel (known as Taillevent), the first celebrity chef who served in the 14th century as master chef in the French imperial courts. His Le Viandier was not an introduction to cooking but served as an aid to help people remember how to cook the classics. Dive into his recipe for a polysavory white stew of capons, along with individual tarts with banners for your guests.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.7 — Renaissance Italy’s Sweets and Pasta23 de abril de 202029minExplore the earliest printed cookbook, composed in the early 15th century and printed around 1470 (making it one of the first generation of books in print on any subject). Learn to create its blancmanger, a combination of capon breast, white flour, rosewater, sugar, and almond milk that still exists in Turkish cuisine. And discover how to make pasta by feel and texture, no measurements allowed.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.8 — Crafting Aphrodisiacs from the Renaissance23 de abril de 202032minRenaissance medicine promoted the idea that some foods made you hot, some cold, some promoted healthy libido and reproduction, and some not. Explore the 1560 cookbook of Domenico Romoli, which combined recipes with medical advice. Learn to make his chickpea fritters, zeppole, and sofrito of chopped beef.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.9 — Aztec Tortillas and Chocolate23 de abril de 202037minWhile no written recipes exist from Aztec culture, we can infer what they ate and cooked from other literature that did survive, and by studying the ecology of the area. Master the secrets of an Aztec specialty: drinking chocolate poured from on high to create a special froth, as well as their turkey tamales.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.10 — Papal Rome: Meat Rolls and Eggplant23 de abril de 202041minExplore the encyclopedic wonders of the Opera, a 1570 cookbook by Bartolomeo Scappi. Unusual for its time, Opera was a cookbook written specifically to teach cooking. With directions and recipes from the Late Renaissance style, and using lavish and contrasting flavors, you will create delicious meat rolls, salami, and an eggplant dish.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.11 — Dining with Don Quixote in Imperial Spain23 de abril de 202021minSpain became a gastronomic model for much of Europe in the 17th century, with its culinary influence becoming widespread even after suffering military defeat. As you cook its olla podrida, discover the riot of flavors (lamb, beef, pig’s feet, chestnuts, turnips, and more) in this “rotten pot” that became popular throughout Europe.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.12 — Portugal and Japan: Cakes and Katsuobushi23 de abril de 202027minExplore the fascinating decades of exchange between Portugal and Japan in the 16th century, and discover which Portuguese foods are still part of Japanese cuisine today. Explore the process of creating fine dried fish flakes from skipjack tuna, and learn why the dried blocks of this fish are so prized that they’re often even given as wedding presents.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.13 — Vegetarian India: Jackfruit and Rice23 de abril de 202039minExplore the ethical vegetarianism of the Jain people in 16th century Kallahalli, today’s southwestern India. As reflected in recipes from the Soopa Shastra, a cookbook commissioned by the local magnate of the area, the Jains used fresh, local ingredients to their best advantage. Learn to cook a stuffed cake, tamarind rice, eggplant, plantain, and a jackfruit soup.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.14 — The Birth of French Haute Cuisine23 de abril de 202036minIn every account of the birth of French haute cuisine, credit is given to Francois Pierre de La Varenne for charting the course forward. Among his innovations was the creation of the roux, a combination of fat and flour used to thicken a sauce. Follow his lead in creating a flavorful bouillon from beef, mutton, and fowl; a potage of chickens with asparagus; and soft cakes without cheese.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.15 — Post-Puritan England: Hippocras and Cookies23 de abril de 202029minDid Lettice Pudsey create all the recipes in the 17th-century manuscript attributed to her? Or do as many as 13 others also deserve credit? Whatever the answer, Pudsey had great culinary skills and she wanted her peers to know it. Explore her hippocras, a delicious spiced wine, and the astounding flavors of her “capon in whit broth.”Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.16 — China’s Last Dynasty: Elegant Simplicity23 de abril de 202032minExplore the fascinating cookbook of the great Qing Dynasty poet Yuan Mei. Writing Recipes from the Garden of Contentment as a reaction to the elite dining of the Chinese court, his recipes are relatively simple, traditional, and made to highlight the natural state of ingredients. Learn to cook his pork tenderloin, wheat gluten, and a simple rice porridge typically eaten for breakfast.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.17 — Early America: Johnnycake and Pumpkin23 de abril de 202039minAmelia Simmons, universally recognized as the first truly American cookbook author, wrote recipes for “all grades of life,” from elegant households to the most humble farmer, in the democratizing spirit of the early Republic. Explore her recipes to create a cornmeal-based johnnycake, a type of corned beef, and a predecessor to the pumpkin pie.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.18 — The French Canadian Tourtière Meat Pie23 de abril de 202028minLa Cuisiniere Canadienne, published in 1840, was the first Canadian cookbook. The authors created the recipes they imagined the early 17th-century Quebec settlers would have eaten (and once in writing, they became the tradition). Discover the extraordinary flavors of the tourtiere, a meat pie traditionally served on Christmas or New Year’s Day.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.19 — Victorian Working-Class Meals23 de abril de 202036minAlexis Soyer, author of the 1855 Shilling Cookery for the People, gained popularity initially as the chef at a fashionable club in London, but later as an inventor and philanthropist who started soup kitchens during the Irish potato famine. Explore his recipes for vermicelli and macaroni, fried fish “Jewish fashion,” and beef pudding.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.20 — Imperial Germany’s Cabbage and Sauerbraten23 de abril de 202037minHenriette Davidis wrote the most popular German cookbook of the 19th century, Praktisches Kochbuch (Practical Cookbook). For the first time in history, with urbanization and the birth of a working class, she knew German women might not have learned to cook before marriage, so she wrote this book for them. Follow her recipes for a delicious red cabbage, sauerbrauten, and bread dumplings.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.21 — Imperial Russia’s Piroshki and Coulibiac23 de abril de 202038minExamine A Gift to Young Housewives by Elena Molokhovets, published during the Russian empire in the final decades before the revolution, featured the foods eaten by the Russian elite. Learn to make pirozhki iz vermisheli, Salad Olivier (known simply as Russian salad outside the country), and the delicious sweet Blinchiki for dessert.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.22 — Brazil and West Africa: Black Bean Stew23 de abril de 202034minExplore the rich cuisine of 19th-century Brazil with its indigenous American, West African, and Portuguese influences. From the Cozinheiro Imperial, first published in 1838, learn to cook vatapa with mandioca flour, green beans and shrimp, and a delicious black bean stew using every part of the pig, including tail and ears.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.23 — America’s Can-Opener Cookbook23 de abril de 202029minDiscover the 1954 Can-Opener Cookbook, a reflection of the mid-century focus on all things convenient: a time when having a can on the pantry shelf was considered easier, more dependable, and more hygienic than fresh food. Follow the recipes to create quick crab meat Lorenzo, jambalaya, and a light blancmange made with instant vanilla pudding mix.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.24 — The Foodie Era: Cooking with the World23 de abril de 202040minIn the 1980s, when cooking became an official leisure activity and mark of cultural status, Nathalie Dupree, Jacques Pepin, and Martin Yan each had a television cooking show. These programs exposed people to great cooking and encouraged them to step into their own kitchens. Learn to create Dupree’s macaroni pie, to bone a chicken Pepin style, and to cook the chicken thighs in a wok as Yan taught.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
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