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The earliest official mention of French toast is in the Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating back to the 4th or 5th century.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
The Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating back to the 4th or 5th century.
Charlie answered:
Wikipedia says it's the 4th or 5th century, so which is the official one?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The earliest official mention of French toast is in the Apicius, a
collection of Latin recipes dating back to the 4th or 5th century.
Sally said:
"Everyone" knows the earliest official mention of French Toast is in the Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating back to the 4th or 5th century - don't they? (Smile)
Yummy, huh?
Happy Snowy Saturday.
PS: Only the other day I was food shopping in my shorts, and today we are awaiting a snow storm, and it is 37 degrees! This is not right, some snowy state is dumping their snow here! Last Halloween, I was sitting on my stoop, in said shorts - okay, I can still wear the shorts, but sitting in the snow is not an option... I am sending that snow right back to some Red State - watch out, here it comes!!
PPS: Oh, JoeS, FYI, "The correct Latin translation for kinaidos is not "catamite" but cinaedus, while "catamite" derives from Latin catamitus, apparently a borrowing of Etruscan catmit as a corrupted form." Ganymedes is obviously a pronunciation issue... Now, is it still "Greek" to you, LOL?? (Love you, JoeS)
Adam answered:
The earliest official mention of French toast is in the Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating back to the 4th or 5th century.
Missed the quiz yesterday; woke up too early for work.
Marian responded:
4th or 5th century
BttbB responded:
Sorry... I can not talk about, nor even think about 'French Toast'. You see, my VA Dietician, Sonya, a very zealous (ha! there's an understatement) 20-something 'Food Nazi', would, if she knew that I were doing so, fix her infamous 'glare' upon me which can reduce even the most irascible of veterans to quivering blobs of Jello. Trust me. Her powers are legion. Otherwise, though, she's wonderful and much beloved by her charges... Like me...
MAM wrote:
The earliest official mention of French toast is in the 'Apicius', a collection of Latin recipes dating back to the 4th or 5th century. Marcus Gavius Apicius, born in 25BC, was a man of questionable taste and unquenchable hunger. It is often thought it was he that gave his name to the world's first cookbook but it is more likely that the collection of recipes were made around the 4th century and the name Apicius given in dubious honour of the gourmand.
Apicius is a text, arranged into ten books, to be used in the kitchen.
Marcus Gavius Apicius 'Apicius' a collection of recipes
And, Joe S replied
This is my first guess, 18th. Wait. I want to use one of my lifelines, or help lines, or what ever the hell Regis called them.
The earliest official mention of French toast is in the Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating back to the 4th or 5th century. The Brothers Grimm mention it as Arme Ritter in the Deutsches Wörterbuch, quoting from the Buch von guter Spyse, which dates back to the 14th century. Another early mention is in the time of the reign of Henry V, when it was known as pain perdu in England. Pain perdu means "lost bread"; stale bread that might have otherwise been thrown away could be used for this dish.
The Oxford English Dictionary cites usages of "French toast" in a book called The Accomplisht Cook in 1660, which listed a recipe for French toast (toasted bread with wine, orange juice, and sugar). The Dictionary of American Food and Drink states the first egg-based recipe appeared in print in 1870.
A similar dish, suppe dorate, was popular in England during the Middle Ages, although the English might have learned it from the Normans, who had a dish called tostees dorees.
The origin of the name "French toast" is not clear, but the most popular theory is that it is named for Joseph French. As the restauranteur of a tavern just outside Albany, New York in 1724, French supposedly created the American version of the recipe and listed the dish as "French toast", after himself.
So as you can see from the last four paragraphs, that I lifted from Wikipedia, the "recipe" goes back to the 4th or 5th century, but is it "French toast?" And so it went throughout the ages. Was there even a "French" in the 4th or 5th century? No, the dish was never called French toast until an American made and American version and named it French. So my first guess was right. I'm never wrong. I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong.
Marty, I learned of this firearms training class down in Texas - the one wherein the teacher has said, in essence, "Muslims and liberals are barred", if you will, from taking the course.
From what I read of this story, this man - Crockett Keller - has said that he will forfeit his firearms training license before being forced to teach people which he doesn't want to teach - i.e., Muslims and Liberals.
Apparently, he believes this country is meant to be a conservative Christian nation, and that non-conservative, non-Christian people have no place in it at all. The only reason I can think of in regard to why he doesn't want to teach Muslims and Liberals is that he wants an easier target when someone such as "Lonesome Rhodes" Beck, or that punk, Andrew Breitbart, issue their call to arms against their supposed enemies - which may include the protesters in the Occupy movement.
It is my hope that those of us who are not conservative Christians will prepare for what comes their way, because when their attempt to come after us takes place, as I believe it just may, there will be some serious trouble.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Once Upon A Time', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Pan Am'.
The CW offers an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then 2 hours of local news and fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'Cleveland Show', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Simpsons', then the SERIES PREMIERE'Allen Gregory', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy', then a FRESH'Cleveland Show'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later', 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', and another 'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[7:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[8:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[9:00 AM] Great Natural Wonders of the World
[10:00 AM] Amazon: Super River
[11:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 8
[12:00 PM] Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
[2:30 PM] Hannibal
[5:00 PM] The Exorcist
[7:30 PM] Hannibal
[10:00 PM] The Exorcist
[12:30 AM] Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
[3:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 3 - Inmates
[4:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 4 - Hide and Seek
[5:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 5 - Committed (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has 'Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos', followed by 'Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos', again, and 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Charlie Sheen'.
FX has the movie 'The Happening', followed by the movie 'Twilight', then the movie 'Twilight', again.
History has 'IRT Deadliest Roads', 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'IRT: Deadliest Roads'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Wilfred - Dog Eat Dog
[6:30AM] United We Stand
[6:45AM] Paperhouse
[8:45AM] Twelve and Holding
[11:15AM] Darkness
[1:00PM] Onion News Network - Asteroid Heads to Earth
[1:30PM] Onion News Network - Missing Baby Kate
[2:00PM] Onion News Network - Fantasy Brainwall
[2:30PM] Onion News Network - Dead Reporter
[3:00PM] Nosebleed
[3:15PM] Paperhouse
[5:15PM] Twelve and Holding
[7:15PM] Prisoner
[9:00PM] Hostel
[11:00PM] Onion News Network - Dead Reporter
[11:30PM] Onion News Network - Dead Reporter
[12:00AM] Borderland
[2:15AM] Hostel
[4:15AM] Offspring (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] QUIRKY: Huge Gamble, Huge Reward (Episode 1, Season 1)
[7:00AM] QUIRKY: Love You, Love Your Product (Episode 2, Season 1)
[8:00AM] QUIRKY: Sacrifice for Sex Appeal (Episode 3, Season 1)
[9:00AM] BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET: Eat (Season 1)
[9:30AM] BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET: Drive (Season 1)
[10:00AM] Ice People
[11:30AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Perfect Couple
[12:00PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Three's a Crowd
[12:30PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Baby On My Mind
[1:00PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Matchmaker Matchmaker
[1:30PM] A Girl Cut In Two
[3:30PM] Love Lust & The Paranormal
[4:30PM] Love Lust & The Undead
[5:30PM] Notes on a Scandal
[10:00PM] Eyes Wide Shut
[12:45AM] Always Crashing In The Same Car
[1:00AM] Love Lust & The Paranormal
[2:00AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Baby On My Mind
[2:30AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Matchmaker Matchmaker
[3:00AM] UNLEASHED BY GARO: It's Time For Her to Expose Herself (Episode 2, Season 1)
[4:00AM] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Strangers in the House (Episode 8, Season 1)
[5:00AM] The Human Behavior Experiments (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans', followed by the movie 'Halloween'.
German actor Michael 'Bully' Herbig holds a sign reading "my apologies for broken vocal cords" during a red carpet of the movie "Hotel Lux" at the Rome Film Festival October 29, 2011.
Photo by Giampiero Sposito
Specialist detectives from the Metropolitan Police have discovered the existence of a secret mobile phone within News International's east London headquarters that was used in more than 1,000 incidents of illegal hacking. The Independent has established that the phone, nicknamed "the hub", was registered to News International and located on the News of the World's news desk. Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan Police's hacking inquiry, has evidence that it was used illegally to access 1,150 numbers between 2004 and 2006.
In this Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, two Fantasy Fest revelers garbed as giant groupers subscribing to the costuming and masking festival's "Aquatic Afrolic" theme, participate in the Masquerade March in Key West, Fla. Key West's annual 10-day Fantasy Fest, that features some 50 different events, is to end Sunday, Oct. 30.
Photo by Andy Newman
During a summer visit to a Motown recording studio, former Beatle Paul McCartney wanted to run his fingers along an 1877 Steinway grand piano played by some Detroit music greats he considers idols.
"He was disappointed when we told him it didn't play," Motown Historical Museum chief executive Audley Smith Jr., told The Detroit News for a story Saturday.
Undaunted, the legendary rock and roller from England told museum officials following a July concert at Comerica Park that he wanted to help restore it.
On Monday, the piano will be picked up from the Detroit museum and shipped to Steinway & Sons in New York for restoration. The work is expected to take up to five months.
Russia's Bolshoi Theater reopened Friday after a massive reconstruction effort that restored it to its original imperial splendor.
The $700 million, six-year effort meticulously recreated the opulent 19th-century decor, many elements of which had been simplified or removed during communist rule. The renovation also added state-of-the art stage gear and created an additional underground hall.
Russian and international celebrities, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and Italian actress Monica Bellucci, filled the grand gold-and-red, 1,743-seat hall in Moscow for Friday's gala opening led by Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev.
The most challenging part of the reconstruction effort was reinforcing the building's foundation and the walls weakened by erosion.
Dancer Judith Mata performs during "De lo natural" at the International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Mes de Danza 18 (Month of Dance 18) in the Andalusian capital of Seville October 29, 2011. The festival will run until November 20.
Photo by Marcelo del Pozo
Branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim art museums being built as part of an ambitious cultural district in Abu Dhabi could now open at least a year later than planned, the developer and an official with knowledge of the projects said Saturday.
Questions about the future of the Saadiyat Island cultural district have swirled among contractors in the Gulf for months. They came into sharper focus this week when the project's government-backed developer disclosed that it was temporarily dropping plans to award a major construction contract.
The Louvre branch, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, was originally scheduled to open in 2012, but that date was later pushed to the following year. A national museum and the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim were expected to follow in quick succession, with all three museums open by 2014.
The Tourism Development & Investment Co., the projects' government-run developer, now says it won't meet those targets.
Texas Governor Rick Perry pressed a conservative social agenda at an appearance in New Hampshire, calling for the repeal of the state's 2009 law legalizing same-sex marriage.
Perry also praised efforts in the state to end funding for birth control and health services for low-income women provided by Planned Parenthood in the state.
The comments were made late Friday at an event in Manchester sponsored by conservative activist group Cornerstone Action.
A poll from the University of New Hampshire this month showed that 62 percent of residents oppose repealing the same-sex marriage law -- including a plurality of likely Republican primary voters -- while only 27 percent support repealing it.
Regardless, Republicans who swept to power in both state chambers of the state legislature in 2010 have this year introduced a bill to repeal.
Kathryn Booth and John Overlin hold signs on day 29 of the Occupy LA protest at Los Angeles City Hall in California October 29, 2011.
Photo by Jonathan Alcorn
Herman Cain's most famous online ad features his campaign director smoking a cigarette after a vigorous endorsement of his boss. Another features an actor drinking a margarita -- on the job -- while he praises Cain's accomplishments.
Both stand out in a type of advertising that usually strives to be desperately wholesome.
Cain's decision to include images of booze and smokes sends the coded messages that he's tough, not preachy, and doesn't want the government infringing on personal freedoms.
At least he's consistent: As a lobbyist, Cain worked against regulations that would have hurt alcohol and tobacco sales, even in cases where advocates said limits could save lives.
Cain's attempts to project a rebellious, anti-establishment image don't go too far. He doesn't want to legalize marijuana or other drugs, for example. Both alcohol and cigarettes are legal and mainstream -- President Obama is an occasional smoker who has struggled to stop lighting up.
A suicide machine belonging to Dr. Jack Kevorkian was withdrawn Friday from an auction of the assisted-suicide advocate's possessions after failing to draw a high enough bid, while 17 of his paintings tied up in a legal dispute with a suburban Boston museum found no takers.
The paintings, including one Kevorkian did with a pint of his blood, and about 100 other personal items went on sale at the New York Institute of Technology. The estate had estimated the value of the 17 paintings at $2.5 million to $3.5 million.
Images of the paintings were displayed instead of the actual works because the Armenian Library and Museum of America has refused to surrender them.
Roger Neal, a spokesman for the Kevorkian estate, said he was not surprised that the paintings did not sell.
"I'm not sure how many people wanted to bid on artwork that was in litigation," he said.
A protestor takes part in a demonstration of the occupy-movement in Frankfurt's banking district October 29, 2011. Several thousand people marched through the Frankfurt banking district on Saturday to protest against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of ruining global economies and condemning millions to poverty and hardship through greed.
Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach
Think the recession was bad? Just wait until Hollywood finishes going digital.
The industry's rapid transition away from physical products such as film prints and DVDs and toward digital distribution is allowing studios to get by with leaner workforces -- a shift that has been both exacerbated and exposed by the recession.
Experts say that the thousands of jobs that have disappeared as the result of the digital revolution and the economic crisis are unlikely to completely return.
As more and more filmmakers make the transition to digital and away from film, it's also eliminating the need for the post-production industry of old.
In this Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, costumed revelers portraying a stone crab trap and its marker buoys walk in the Fantasy Fest Masquerade March in Key West, Fla. The annual 10-day Fantasy Fest costuming and masking festival, that ends Sunday, Oct. 30, is themed Aquatic Afrolic.
Photo by Andy Newman
It's still "drill, baby, drill." After the nation's largest offshore oil spill and a series of pipeline breaks, Republican presidential candidates are pushing an aggressive policy of oil and gas drilling that echoes the party's rallying cry from four years ago.
This time around, the calls for more drilling are sometimes running into another conservative ideal - preserving wild places for future generations. The millions of gallons of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico last year and the crude that flowed from pipelines into Montana's Yellowstone River and Michigan's Kalamazoo River have put a spotlight on the environmental risks of energy production.
But with jobs and the economy in the forefront, nearly every GOP White House contender has a plan to harness the nation's resources as a way to create employment by getting rid of environmental rules and opening up vast areas to drilling.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R-Hand Puppet) says we are sitting "on a treasure trove of energy in this country." Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Willard) has said "we're an energy-rich nation that's acting like an energy-poor nation." And since former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Family Values) in 2008 published his book "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less," he has touted more drilling in Alaska and the West to create jobs and drive down gasoline prices.
Some of the ideas sound like they're inherited directly from former Alaska half-term Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Quitter), the 2008 vice presidential nominee who popularized "drill, baby drill."
Veteran British broadcaster Jimmy Savile, a famously eccentric culture figure, has died at his home in northern England. He was 84.
Savile, known for his garish tracksuits, chunky gold jewelry and boundless enthusiasm for pop music and charity work, was the host of two long-running British television programs and claimed to have been a longtime confidant to Prince Charles and ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Rarely seen without his trademark large cigar, Savile had initially worked in a coal mine as a teenager before embracing music and built a national profile as a disc jockey - first in Britain's dance halls and later on radio, including the renowned Radio Luxembourg.
Savile claimed have been the first DJ in the world to use two turntables - enabling continuous music to be played - inventing the techniques later embraced by modern dance music, and to have pioneered the use of record, rather than live bands, at nightclubs.
Bestowed with a knighthood for his charity fundraising, Savile was best known as the host of the BBC's "Top Of The Pops" weekly television pop music show, launching the program in 1964 and returning to present its final edition in 2006.
For almost 20 years from 1975, Savile also hosted the hugely popular series "Jim'll Fix It," in which the broadcaster responded to children's letters by arranging for their wishes to be realized.
Savile championed a host of good causes - frequently running marathons to raise money - and led work to collect 20 million pounds ($32 million) for the creation of a national spinal injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in southern England.
Savile never married and lived alone in his native Leeds, in northern England, reserving part of his home as shrine to his later mother.
His guarded, and sometime curious, private life was the subject of a much watched television documentary in 2000 by film maker Louis Theroux, son of author Paul Theroux.
The Cameron Park Zoo's new Sumatran tiger cubs Indah, left, and Bugara explore inside the zoo's tiger habitat during their public debut Friday Oct. 28, 2011 in Waco, Texas. The cubs were born at the zoo in August and have been hand reared by zoo staff.
Photo by Duane A. Laverty
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Texas Governor Rick Perry pressed a conservative social agenda at an appearance in New Hampshire, calling for the repeal of the state's 2009 law legalizing same-sex marriage.
