"Napoleon Food Facts: Dining with Napoleon Bonaparte" Topic

"To speak of Napoleon Bonaparte at the dining table is even much harder than speaking of his battles. He wasn't fond of dining and ate quickly, no more than 15 minutes per meal. He often skipped meals or arrived late for dinner forcing everyone at the table to eat at a fast pace. He was quick and helped himself with his hands. He liked to soak his bread on the plate. Napoleon preferred simple and essential meals such as potato soup, beans and onions (even his last supper was like this). The chefs weren't paid much at all and in ten years there had been eleven. They say Napoleon suffered from gastritis which forced him to eat lighter and frequent meals.

There is a recipe said to be linked with Napoleon: Marengo Chicken. On the battlefield of Marengo, followed by his cook, Napoleon hadn't touched food all day waiting for the end of the battle which made him very hungry. The cook sent his help to gather food from the houses, it's a possibility that all of the inhabitants had left once the battle started not without their belongings. The boys come back with much of nothing: a small chicken, some shrimps from the river, eggs, garlic and tomatoes. The cook starts cooking the chicken in garlic, adds the tomatoes and embellishes the plate with fried eggs and boiled shrimp. He adds some cognac to it. Napoleon loves it…"
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Armand

Very interesting. N was not a fellow for a leisurely dining and good conversation.

No, he was not. And didn't waste any time eating either.

Glad you enjoyed it my friend!.

Armand

I'll bet he would've liked buffalo chicken wings or anything else where he could have pulled the bone apart.

This is probably the most important difference between Elvis and Napoleon.

Elvis' favourite snack between meals was the "Fool's Gold" sandwich, which consisted of a French loaf sliced horizontally into three and filled sandwich-style with 1lb each of bacon, peanut butter, and grape jelly. It was then deep-fried. Each contained around 11,000 calories. Elvis and 6 others ate 22 of them in a single sitting in 1976. Elvis on occasion ate more than an elephant (~80,000 calories a day).

Napoleon's gluttony was on an epic, much greater scale. Whereas Elvis only ate food, Napoleon ate entire countries. Until he burst.

Ha!…..

Armand

The Napoleon dinner scene from 'Time Bandits' is still a classic… ;-)

Appetite For War: What Napoleon And His Men Ate On The March

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Armand