Congress of Vienna – Talleyrand anecdotes<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe Congress of Vienna was held between October 1, 1814 and June 9, 1815, presided over by Metternich, as a conference to restore old rights and borders. The geopolitical lines that came out of it were, in any case, less than the pleasures and dances enjoyed by the illustrious guests of the imperial capital. To the point that it served to coin the title of a famous operetta: Congress has fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNot even the great banquet that the Prince of Ligne offered him in Vienna, after the fall of Bonaparte<\/a>, distracted him from the cynicism that he carried with less concealment than his limp. The Prince of Ligne, an enlightened man, a prominent figure of the Age of Enlightenment, confidant of Marie Antoinette, had dedicated his talent to weapons and letters. Fortunately he left the former soon enough to dedicate himself to the latter. With them he seduced some of the greatest writers, including Goethe.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
\n\nAs he also stood out for his kindness, Charles-Joseph de Ligne was delighted to coincide at the Congress of Vienna<\/strong> with Tayllerand, who boldly and smugly displayed his knowledge at the Hoffburg meetings. His brilliant phrases came out of his mouth like the Chinese when they use chopsticks to eat noodles. Talleyrand anecdotes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe gift that he gave to the Prince of Benevento<\/a> to entertain him went down in the annals of banquet history. He ordered for him capons from Bruges, pulardes from Campine, lamb from the Ardennes, oysters from Ostend, rabbits from Strasbourg, pigs’ heads from the best German markets, Alost, among them; Anvers prawns, and Bakenberg cod. There were no better dishes to present on a table and they were served on fine Mechelen tablecloths, accompanied by the best wines and liquors.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/picture><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n Antonin Car\u00eame: Talleyrand anecdotes<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\nMARC-ANTOINE DE CAR\u00c9ME (1784-1833)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAntonin Car\u00eame,<\/a> one of the great legendary chefs in the history of gastronomy, considered Tayllerand<\/a> to be the most knowledgeable gastronome of all those he dealt with. For his part, the Prince recommended Car\u00eame, who thanks to this managed to find a place in the most important kitchens of the European nobility. Car\u00eame was then a little over twenty years old and his teachers were Laguipierre, cook of Murat, and, above all, Bouchet, in the service of Tayllerand.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\nIt was probably Bouchet, author of the woodcock with mustard, the same one who first cooked the Beurr\u00e9s Burgundy snails, with butter, shallots, garlic and parsley, which became one of the dishes with which he used to entertain his their guests who initially watched them with astonishment. Beautiful vineyard snails, from Beaune, gros blancs and, also, their small relatives, petit gris, cooked in well-seasoned broths inside their shells and then taken out and returned to them in the company of butter, garlic and parsley. Try a drop of pastis or anise, and then bake in the oven, ten minutes is enough. <\/span><\/p>\nNo need for tongs. The French, at popular fairs, wrap them in paper napkins or slices of bread, so as not to burn them or get them covered in grease, and give them a skillful twist of a toothpick so that they come out whole from the shells directly into the mouth. To drink, a white, dry burgundy<\/a>, aligot\u00e9, or a ribeiro itself. Tayllerand preferred them to anything else. And there were many things.<\/span><\/p>\n
MARC-ANTOINE DE CAR\u00c9ME (1784-1833)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMARC-ANTOINE DE CAR\u00c9ME (1784-1833)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nMarc-Antoine de Car\u00e9me, “the king of cooks and the cook of kings”, as he has been called, was born in Paris and was, in his own words, “one of the 25 brothers of one of the poorest families in France”.<\/span><\/p>\nSome scholars say that he was a direct descendant of a famous senior cook of Pope Leo X; This ancestor of his invented, they say, an exquisite Lenten soup (as a result of which the Pontiff gave him the name of Jean de Car\u00e9me<\/strong> (Lent), a name that the family adopted since then.<\/span><\/p>\nIn any case, Car\u00e9me worked since he was seven years old as a kitchen maid. Already a teenager, he was accepted as an apprentice chef studying with masters such as Boucher, Laguipi\u00e9re, Robert, Kichaut, Bardet, Lasne, Savart, Riquert and Robillard, until he finally created the subtle synthesis that marked the end of Old Regime cuisine. and the beginning of La Grande Cuisine Franfaise, which is classic French cuisine as we know it today.<\/span><\/p>\nCar\u00e9me’s creations very well reflect his considerable artistic skills; his pastries often resembled a sculpture more than a dessert. His exquisite taste and meticulous judgment (illustrated in his many books), as well as his 48-course dinners, made French cuisine sovereign in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\nAmong the famous people he cooked for were Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander I, the future King George IV of England<\/a>, Lord Castlereagh, Baron Rostchild<\/a>. In any case his motto was always \u201cOne master: Talleyrand. One loves: Cooking. Talleyrand anecdotes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Car\u00e9me’s culinary triumphs were much more important than his diplomatic ones<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIn 1817, James de Rothschild acquired Ch\u00e2teau Rothschild, Boulogne-Billancourt<\/strong>, where his children were born and raised. Following the death of his brother Nathan in 1836, James took over the management of the Rothschild banking group. In 1838 he purchased a large residence in Paris, at 2 rue Saint-Florentin<\/a> on the Place de la Concorde that belonged to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. He remained in the family until 1950 when it was sold to the United States government and today serves the Consular section of the United States Embassy.<\/span><\/p>\nCar\u00e9me was always faithful to his benefactor and the result of this is that he was the only cook in history who also acted as a spy by transmitting to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs information that he obtained at important dinners and banquets throughout Europe. Car\u00e9me believed that lovers of good cuisine could only be happy in France but as a spy disguised as a chef he transmitted information to his country from the court of Saint Petersburg, the dining rooms of the palace of the Emperor of Austria and the house of the Rothschilds among many others. places that interested Monsieur Talleyrand.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/h2>\nIn any case, Car\u00e9me’s culinary triumphs were much more important than his diplomatic ones. During his travels<\/a>, Car\u00e9me discovered and introduced to France delicacies such as caviar, and Paskha, a creamy cheese cake very typical of Russian cuisine and which the French<\/a> adopted very quickly and today is the famous coeur \u00e1 la cr\u00e8me.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen he was in England<\/a> he invented a luxurious cake that he named Charlotte Apple in honor of Princess Charlotte of that country.<\/span><\/p>\nDuring his stay in Russia while he was in the service of Tsar Alexander, as he was unable to forget the princess, he invented a jelly cake with cream on top in the shape of a crown and which he called Charlotte Russe (this cake is still made today in many pastry shops).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/a>Ch\u00e2teau Rothschild, Boulogne-Billancourt,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPrepared and served food for 10,000 guests<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nAt a military party held outdoors at the Champs-Elys\u00e9es, he prepared and served food for 10,000 guests, for which he needed, among other things: 6 cows, 75 calves, 250 sheep, 8,000 turkeys, 2,000 capons, 1,000 chickens, 1,000 partridges.<\/span><\/span> , 500 hams, 1,000 carp, 1,000 pike, 18,000 bottles of Mac\u00f3n and 145 barrels of wine.<\/span><\/span> Although most of Car\u00e9me’s recipes are reserved for professional cooks, here is a relatively simple one for preparing chestnut croquettes adapted from one of her cookbooks:<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Congress of Vienna was held between October 1, 1814 and June 9, 1815, presided over by Metternich, as a conference to restore old rights and borders. The geopolitical lines that came out of it were, in any case, less than the pleasures and dances enjoyed by the illustrious guests of the imperial capital. To the point that it served to coin the title of a famous operetta: Congress has fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Not even the great banquet that the Prince of Ligne offered him in Vienna, after the fall of Bonaparte<\/a>, distracted him from the cynicism that he carried with less concealment than his limp. The Prince of Ligne, an enlightened man, a prominent figure of the Age of Enlightenment, confidant of Marie Antoinette, had dedicated his talent to weapons and letters. Fortunately he left the former soon enough to dedicate himself to the latter. With them he seduced some of the greatest writers, including Goethe.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n As he also stood out for his kindness, Charles-Joseph de Ligne was delighted to coincide at the Congress of Vienna<\/strong> with Tayllerand, who boldly and smugly displayed his knowledge at the Hoffburg meetings. His brilliant phrases came out of his mouth like the Chinese when they use chopsticks to eat noodles. Talleyrand anecdotes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The gift that he gave to the Prince of Benevento<\/a> to entertain him went down in the annals of banquet history. He ordered for him capons from Bruges, pulardes from Campine, lamb from the Ardennes, oysters from Ostend, rabbits from Strasbourg, pigs’ heads from the best German markets, Alost, among them; Anvers prawns, and Bakenberg cod. There were no better dishes to present on a table and they were served on fine Mechelen tablecloths, accompanied by the best wines and liquors.<\/span><\/p>\n MARC-ANTOINE DE CAR\u00c9ME (1784-1833)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Antonin Car\u00eame,<\/a> one of the great legendary chefs in the history of gastronomy, considered Tayllerand<\/a> to be the most knowledgeable gastronome of all those he dealt with. For his part, the Prince recommended Car\u00eame, who thanks to this managed to find a place in the most important kitchens of the European nobility. Car\u00eame was then a little over twenty years old and his teachers were Laguipierre, cook of Murat, and, above all, Bouchet, in the service of Tayllerand.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n It was probably Bouchet, author of the woodcock with mustard, the same one who first cooked the Beurr\u00e9s Burgundy snails, with butter, shallots, garlic and parsley, which became one of the dishes with which he used to entertain his their guests who initially watched them with astonishment. Beautiful vineyard snails, from Beaune, gros blancs and, also, their small relatives, petit gris, cooked in well-seasoned broths inside their shells and then taken out and returned to them in the company of butter, garlic and parsley. Try a drop of pastis or anise, and then bake in the oven, ten minutes is enough. <\/span><\/p>\n No need for tongs. The French, at popular fairs, wrap them in paper napkins or slices of bread, so as not to burn them or get them covered in grease, and give them a skillful twist of a toothpick so that they come out whole from the shells directly into the mouth. To drink, a white, dry burgundy<\/a>, aligot\u00e9, or a ribeiro itself. Tayllerand preferred them to anything else. And there were many things.<\/span><\/p>\n Marc-Antoine de Car\u00e9me, “the king of cooks and the cook of kings”, as he has been called, was born in Paris and was, in his own words, “one of the 25 brothers of one of the poorest families in France”.<\/span><\/p>\n Some scholars say that he was a direct descendant of a famous senior cook of Pope Leo X; This ancestor of his invented, they say, an exquisite Lenten soup (as a result of which the Pontiff gave him the name of Jean de Car\u00e9me<\/strong> (Lent), a name that the family adopted since then.<\/span><\/p>\n In any case, Car\u00e9me worked since he was seven years old as a kitchen maid. Already a teenager, he was accepted as an apprentice chef studying with masters such as Boucher, Laguipi\u00e9re, Robert, Kichaut, Bardet, Lasne, Savart, Riquert and Robillard, until he finally created the subtle synthesis that marked the end of Old Regime cuisine. and the beginning of La Grande Cuisine Franfaise, which is classic French cuisine as we know it today.<\/span><\/p>\n Car\u00e9me’s creations very well reflect his considerable artistic skills; his pastries often resembled a sculpture more than a dessert. His exquisite taste and meticulous judgment (illustrated in his many books), as well as his 48-course dinners, made French cuisine sovereign in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n Among the famous people he cooked for were Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander I, the future King George IV of England<\/a>, Lord Castlereagh, Baron Rostchild<\/a>. In any case his motto was always \u201cOne master: Talleyrand. One loves: Cooking. Talleyrand anecdotes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n In 1817, James de Rothschild acquired Ch\u00e2teau Rothschild, Boulogne-Billancourt<\/strong>, where his children were born and raised. Following the death of his brother Nathan in 1836, James took over the management of the Rothschild banking group. In 1838 he purchased a large residence in Paris, at 2 rue Saint-Florentin<\/a> on the Place de la Concorde that belonged to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. He remained in the family until 1950 when it was sold to the United States government and today serves the Consular section of the United States Embassy.<\/span><\/p>\n Car\u00e9me was always faithful to his benefactor and the result of this is that he was the only cook in history who also acted as a spy by transmitting to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs information that he obtained at important dinners and banquets throughout Europe. Car\u00e9me believed that lovers of good cuisine could only be happy in France but as a spy disguised as a chef he transmitted information to his country from the court of Saint Petersburg, the dining rooms of the palace of the Emperor of Austria and the house of the Rothschilds among many others. places that interested Monsieur Talleyrand.<\/span><\/p>\n In any case, Car\u00e9me’s culinary triumphs were much more important than his diplomatic ones. During his travels<\/a>, Car\u00e9me discovered and introduced to France delicacies such as caviar, and Paskha, a creamy cheese cake very typical of Russian cuisine and which the French<\/a> adopted very quickly and today is the famous coeur \u00e1 la cr\u00e8me.<\/span><\/p>\n When he was in England<\/a> he invented a luxurious cake that he named Charlotte Apple in honor of Princess Charlotte of that country.<\/span><\/p>\n During his stay in Russia while he was in the service of Tsar Alexander, as he was unable to forget the princess, he invented a jelly cake with cream on top in the shape of a crown and which he called Charlotte Russe (this cake is still made today in many pastry shops).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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Car\u00e9me’s culinary triumphs were much more important than his diplomatic ones<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Prepared and served food for 10,000 guests<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n