Let’s cook History: Revolution in Eating

Scenes

Mastercook Careme at work

Here, master cook Marie-Antoine Careme has prepared a dazzling dinner celebrating a victory of Napoleon In his work, Careme is inspired by architecture. His main employer was the diplomat Talleyrand.

Advent of restaurants in France

After the French revolution, the bourgeoisie adopted a new habit of dining in restaurants. Paris was the first place where restaurants were opened. The number restaurants grew substantially and became increasingly important on a social level.

Napoleon introducing buffet supper

A new habit in dining was introduced by Napoleon himself; the buffet supper. This resulted in the arrival of a new branche within the world of cuisine: catering.

Food for soldiers Napoleon

This clip shows the eating habits of the soldiers of Napoleon. Bread and soup were the main components. Furthermore, the clip consists of images of the reenaction of the battle of Waterloo.

Eating beef and industrial revolution

The English introduced eating bovine meat and the French reluctantly copied this eating habit. Eating beef was introduced to increase the meat consumption of the working class during the industrial revolution.

Agricultural revolution

Multiple factors resulted in the advent of agricultural revolution in Europe during the 19th century. Thanks to these changes, the quantity and quality of food throughout Europe increased.

Food preservation in 19th century

In the 19th century, new ways for food preservation were invented. Here, two revolutions of preservations are mentioned: the cooling down the food by using a refrigerator, and secondly canning, which is sterilization and the use of tin plates. New ways of preservation were combined with the proces of pasteurization.

Improving wine in 19th century France

Thanks to the work of the first enologists and research on fermentation by Gay-Lussac, the 19th century was a period when wine productivity and quality increased rapidly.

19th century working class: Miners

Because of the industrial revolution, a new type of workers in the working class emerged: the miners. In this clip is shown how a working day looked like for the miners in 19th century Northern France.

Artist Eugene Delacroix

The French romantic artist Eugene Delacroix is a famous 19th century painter. His work is well known, for example the painting seen in this clip: The massacres at Chios.

Masterchef Heinz Winkler

Heinz Winkler, masterchef and owner of famous restaurant Residenz talks about his sources of inspiration, such as chef Auguste Escoffier.