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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Chapter 25 Mayonnaise, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

Chapter 25: Mayonnaise


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1. You make mayonnaise by whisking oil and egg yolk briskly together with a splash of vinegar and a pinch of salt.
2. Bearnaise sauce is related to Bearn in the southwest of France.
3. Hollandaise sauce is related to Netherlands.
4. The name Mayonnaise was adapted from the City of Mahon in Spain.
5. Mayonnaise went to France after 1752.
6. There's another theory that Mayonnaise came from the French region of Mayenne.
7. Charles of Lorraine was the Duke of Mayenne around the French Wars of Religion.
8. French Catholics and Huguenots fought in the French Wars of Religion.
9. The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France.
10. St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris took place in 1572.
11. Mobs killed thousands of Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
12. Richard Hellmann sold jars of mayonnaise from his delicatessen in New York City.
13. Richard Hellman sold their mayonnaise factory to Best Foods.

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