RIP, Peng Chang-kuei at 98!

Post #415,846 by a6l6e6x 12/4/16 8:15:45 AM 12/4/16 8:15:45 AM Reply	RIP, Peng Chang-kuei at 98! Never heard of the guy until I read the article, but he was the inventor of General Tso's Chicken. It's my very favorite Chinese dish if I manage to avoid the peppers used to flavor the dish! :) BBC: General Tso's Chicken creator dies in Taiwan aged 98 The chef who created the much-loved Chinese dish General Tso's Chicken has died at the age of 98. Peng Chang-kuei succumbed to pneumonia in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. Mr Peng's demise comes in the same week as that of Michael "Jim" Delligatti, father of the McDonald's Big Mac, who was also 98. He leaves the world his sweet-but-spicy chicken recipe - named after a 19th Century military leader from China's Hunan province. Mr Peng began his food training aged 13, and rose to become the banquet chef for China's Nationalist government. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #415,847 by drook 12/4/16 9:58:29 AM 12/4/16 9:58:29 AM Reply	Synchronicity The creators of the most American American food, and the most American Chinese food. The guy who invented French fries better be looking over his shoulder. -- Drew
Post #415,848 by Andrew Grygus 12/4/16 10:46:13 AM 12/4/16 10:46:13 AM Reply	"French Fries" as we know them . . . . . were invented in Belgium. Returning WWI US soldiers demanded them. They had been stationed in Belgium, but thought they were still in France. French French Fries are round, not stick shaped.
Post #415,858 by pwhysall 12/4/16 4:20:29 PM 12/4/16 4:20:29 PM Reply	Nuh uh Frites are rectilinear. Order steak frites in any foodhole in France to find out.
Post #415,863 by Andrew Grygus 12/4/16 9:03:22 PM 12/4/16 9:04:34 PM Reply	The true original French Fry was round. Perhaps the French just finally decided to go along with whatever everyone else is doing. The first mention in France is from 1775 (round slices). That they were round is also attested by Thomas Jefferson (1802) and E.Warren (England 1856). The Belgians were the first to cut them in a stick shape. French Fries were round in the United State, in the French manner, until after WWI. The American Potato Chip was invented by an angry chef in Saratoga New York, when a customer rejected his (round) French Fries as too thick. He cut a batch as thin as he could (round), fried them up and sent them out. The customer loved them - and the Saratoga Chip was born. For a long time, potato chip slicers were called "Saratoga slicers). Edited by Andrew Grygus Dec. 4, 2016, 09:04:34 PM EST Expand All History

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