{"id":4232,"date":"2024-07-22T19:45:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2024-07-22T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:45:50","slug":"mayonnaise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4232","title":{"rendered":"Mayonnaise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quite a long time back, I wrote about ketchup \u2014 I chose the subject because when&nbsp; our daughter was little she insisted on putting catchup on <em>everything<\/em> she ate. Anyhow, if I remember, I discussed kind of how ketchup came about \u2014 it was originally made from fish brine, and even today, all ketchup isn\u2019t made from tomatoes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when I sat down here, I intended to write not about ketchup, but mayonnaise. (If you\u2019re interested more in ketchup, just type ketchup in the search box for this blog.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a time when mayonnaise was a celebrated \u2014 even noble \u2014 sauce and not just some glop that you put on sandwiches. That time was 1756; the place was Mahon, a city on the Spanish island of Minorca. The city of Mahon was captured by the forces of Louis-Francois-Armad de Vigneron du Plessis, duc de Richelieu. That resulted in the expulsion of the hated English from the island.\u00a0<br>Well, after a hard day fighting the English, Louis decided they should celebrate, so he ordered his chef to whip up a feast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chef decided to make a cream sauce for the meats he was preparing, but he discovered that there was no cream to be found. So the chef grabbed some eggs, olive oil, and a whisk (and probably said a prayer.) The result of the chef\u2019s inventiveness was Mayonnaise \u2014 named for the captured city.\u00a0<br>The French love that sauce so much that they\u2019ve invented over 50 variations of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic difference in American-style mayo and French-style is that American-style uses whole eggs, lemon juice, oil and is seasoned with salt and sometimes a bit of sugar. French-style uses egg yolks as well as mustard in addition to lemon juice and oil and is seasoned simply with salt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robin Williams once said, \u201cGentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.\u201d I\u2019m not sure I quite understand what that means, but since I don\u2019t know any more about mayonnaise, it seems like good place to stop.\u00a0<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a long time back, I wrote about ketchup \u2014 I chose the subject because when&nbsp; our daughter was little she insisted on putting catchup on everything she ate. Anyhow, if I remember, I discussed kind of how ketchup came &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4232\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}