Feeding Napoleon - Chicken Marengo

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''famous for his messy eating habits and his love of chickens'', wow I have more in common with Napoleon than I thought.

I love how people felt so shocked by Napoleon's eating habits when it sounds like he just had the palate of the typical soldier and was unashamed of it.

"Don't eat so quickly" "Please, I am dining a la Bonaparte"

Finishing a meal in about 10 minutes and walking away from the table to escape the social situation and get back to something I'd rather be doing sounds about right to me. Though it's never given me a serious tummy ache.

It may be a case of serendipity, but I find it delightfully fitting that just as Max reaches 2 million YT subscribers, we find him donning the Emperor Napoleon's famous hat for his latest offering. Toutes nos félicitations, Max (and José)!

See, I’m not a total barbarian at the table, I just eat like Napoleon

For true authentic Napoleon experience, you're supposed to finish your chicken marengo in under 12 minutes!

Napoleon's table manner sounds a bit like my dad's, lol. And he actually used to cook chicken Marengo quite often when I was a kid, though his version had a thin tomato sauce with lots of white wine instead of the stock rue, and the pieces of chicken were flowered before frying to thicken the sauce up. Delicious non the less.

Those anecdotes about napoleon having stomach problems might have actually been early symptoms of the stomach cancer he later died of

>Napoleon had very simple and plain dishes >Napoleon cared that his dinner be prepared exactly how he liked it >Napoleon ate quickly, making people question if he “chewed every little, or even not at all” Napoleon just like me fr fr

Can absolutely relate to Napoleon and his fear of finding those hairlike threads in green beans! Totally disgusting!

Might not have been minor pain. Napoleon died of stomach cancer.

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I'll be honest max, at some point I just forgot this was about a single dish. I was hanging on your every word, delighted by you telling all about Napoleon. Stunning work as always.

French food, like many regional cuisines, varies widely. I have a cookbook of Provencal dishes and it is full of rustic and simple dishes that included ingredients one wouldn't expect in French cooking, like lavender. This dish sounds delicious, as slowly frying the chicken in oil would really develop it's flavors and toasting the flour when making the roux gives it a complex nutty flavor that should pair well with your sautéed mush=rooms as well as the chicken. For a simple dish, it seems to have a lot of well-balanced flavors!

I made a version of this sauce recipe with Pork the other night completely by accident, and can confirm it was tasty! Side note: Napoleon suffered from severe hemorrhoids and gout later in life and had various other stomach and intestinal ailments are often associated with a poor diet. He was a notoriously picky eater that ate mostly meat and seems to have eaten very little fiber or vegetables How do you prevent this? Eat your chicken/meat as part of a balanced meal including plenty of veggies and bread or other starches Or if you are primarily a carnivore get a fiber supplement, try it for 3 days and you'll feel the difference

I don’t know why but hearing about how his wife would help prepare his coffee or would comfort him when he had a stomachache felt really sweet! You don’t seem to hear a lot about the more domestic lives of historical figures so it’s nice to see it

11:46 I can actually sympathize with Napoleon here. I've had jobs with a 30-minute lunch break, but there's nowhere to eat onsite. So by the time I've clocked out, grabbed my lunch, and walked over to a park, nine minutes have passed, and it'll take me another nine minutes to do the same thing in reverse to get back to work. So functionally, sometimes all you have for hours is just 12 minutes to eat.

Napoleon sounds like someone who had to fight too many siblings for not enough food. I don't know enough about him to know if that's a possibility, but I do remember hearing that historians thought he had gall stones. Sounds a lot more like he just gave himself heartburn by eating too fast.