because of its relatively high cholesterin content. But recent research has corrected this and shows that in healthy people there is little correlation between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol; This is even shown in studies where several eggs per day and a person were on the menu. In the egg, cholesterol is found exclusively in the yolk fat; it can only be influenced insignificantly by breeding and feeding. And contrary to a popular opinion, which is occasionally misused to provide misleading consumer information, eggs from Araucana chickens (the only “green layers”) or from quail (speckled eggs) do not have a lower, but sometimes even higher cholesterol content. This apparently ineradicable wishful thinking can be easily refuted; Cholseterin-free eggs would not be able to hatch chicks, which would automatically cause such breeds to become extinct

What about the color of the shell?

The usual quiz question “who lays white eggs, who brown eggs?” is always answered incorrectly. Because with the plumage color, as one might assume, there is no connection. Rather, it is a question of a genetic freak of nature, in that the color of the eggshells is combined with that of the chicken’s earlobes: breeds with white earlobes lay white-skinned eggs, breeds with red earlobes lay brown-skinned eggs.
The widespread opinion, however, that brown eggs are healthier or even more ecologically produced, is based on an old wive’s tale.

The Yolk and Egg White

Contrary to popular belief, the color of the yolk has no connection whatsoever with the nutritional value, taste, or way of keeping the chickens; it all depends on the feed. While the Swiss prefer more intense yellow yolks, the Americans (also with health concerns) prefer it pale yellow.

Very Nutritious, and Versatile

Eggs are a valuable staple food. One egg covers around 10 percent of the daily protein and mineral requirement as well as a quarter of the vitamins A and D. In addition, it has ideal kitchen qualifications: foam formation and stability (whipped egg white), emulsion stability of the egg yolk (mayonnaise), baking and cooking properties (emulsifying, stabilizing, coagulating, liquid binding), not to forget the coloring effect of the egg yolk (baked goods and pasta). The protein content of three eggs corresponds to that of 110 grams of steak (with a big market price difference). 

In Switzerland we consume approximately 200 Eggs per person; in  America about 295 per person.

All of this justifies finally thinking again about those who lay these eggs: the chickens.

Original story by Heini Hofman, Urner Wochenblatt, April 3, 2022

Die Fermentation wandelt den einfachen Zucker in den Körnern und Gerste in Alkohol um. Die Menschen brauen seit rund 6.000 Jahren Bier. Es wird angenommen, dass die Sumerer den Fermentationsprozess entdeckten, vielleicht als ein Stück Brot oder Getreide nass wurde und zu fermentieren begann.

Das älteste schriftliche Rezept der Welt,

das vor 4.000 Jahren in Mesopotamien aufgezeichnet wurde, ist für Bier. Der antike griechische Arzt Hippokrates empfahl Bier als griechisches Beruhigungsmittel. Heute trinkt der durchschnittliche Amerikanische oder Schweizer Erwachsene jedes Jahr 21,7 bis 23 Gallonen Bier. In der Schweiz, zwischen registrierten, nicht-registrierten und privaten, gibt es 8000 Brauereien!

Pennsylvania hat mehr Brauereien als jeder andere Staat, einschließlich der ältesten aktiven Brauerei in den Vereinigten Staaten, der Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville. Weltweit hat Belgien die meisten Biermarken – 400+ – und die Tschechen trinken am meisten, durchschnittlich mehr als 42 Gallonen pro Erwachsenem pro Jahr.

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 Dann gibt es auch BANANEN BIER in Zentral Afrika

to prepare the tastiest, easily digestible, nutritious, and also healthy dishes from food by boiling, frying, steaming or other processes had already reached a high level in antiquity. Since, according to the ancient view, good nutrition was directly related to health, the cook often worked with doctors.

Paul Bocuse

Culinary art came to Greece from the Asian countries and then to Italy.

Under the Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius, there were already schools of culinary art. In ancient Rome, cooks were mostly slaves, mainly Greeks, who were taken prisoners of war. Cooks were popular and expensive, and the prices paid for good cooks were extremely high.

In the Middle Ages, the kitchen was particularly cared for and developed by the monasteries. Modern culinary art comes from Italy (around the 16th century) and was introduced to France from there by Catherine de Medici, who took her cooks to France when she married Heinrich.

French Cuisine

flourished for the first time at the court of Louis XIV. The most famous chef of the time was François Vatel, who committed suicide when, at one point, he was unable to cook adequately for his master. With the end of the limitless willingness to spend by the nobility and royal court, who paid no taxes, as a result of the French Revolution, the chefs had to find new sources of income. They opened restaurants in which the wealthy bourgeoisie frequented. In the 19th century, therefore, French culinary arts recovered from the revolution and crises. The rising bourgeoisie gradually democratized the kitchen with successes and setbacks.

For many decades

The most famous chefs often came from France. Bocuse, the Troisgros brothers, and Marc Haeberlin are all pupils of Fernand Point. They propagated a kitchen that turned fresh, high-quality food from the regions of their own country into cleverly arranged, tasty table delights. The nouvelle cuisine was based on similar ingredients as the diet cuisine: vegetables, steamed meat, and little fat.

The cooking story goes on and on ….. the most beautiful job in the world 🌎

I felt that I had to mention and give credit to today’s culinary geniuses such as Fredy Girardet 🇨🇭 and Hans Stucky 🇨🇭I had the pleasure to dine in the establishments of all the mentioned chefs in this post, and my favorite, most impressive one was at Paul Bocuse in Lyon, the second was The Haeberlin Brothers in Alsace, then Girardet in Renens, the fourth was Stucky in Basel.

Joel Kraaz👨🏻‍🍳

I don’t want to burst the bubble of any young person contemplating pursuing a career in the culinary field; however, this profession consumes and demands a lot of personal sacrifices. You will be working when everyone is off, and you will be off when everyone is working, including all holidays. In the beginning, You work long hours for a mediocre salary, until you work yourself up into a management position, or until you decide to own and operate your own business, which is even more demanding because now you cannot just punch in and out, you are on the hook for all the responsibilities owning a business brings with it. I have lived most of my life in the Hospitality business and wrote about it, you may read some of my posts on my website here. I wrote an ebook about the choices I have made as a chef, also available on my website in the online shop.

If you decide to take the path of a chef’s life, make sure you eat healthily, exercise a lot, and stay away from alcohol! I have seen many of my working friends fall into that trap.

Your blogging friend Ulrich Koepf

The point and intentions of this blog are for the younger generation, and for the non-believers, to see and understand why and how a human race can be manipulated in doing such inhuman acts, the worst part of it is that the rest of the world was watching and waiting too long to interact and end this disaster. It is hard to believe that during the construction of dozens of concentration camps being built, with gas chambers, ovens, and torture chambers, which must have taken months if not years to build with thousands of workers that it hasn’t brought it to peoples attention outside of Germany!Today’s generation

can not allow such events to ever happen again, and that brings me to a previous blog in which I expressed my own opinion, that the globe needs to have a nation in charge in order to keep peace and democracy all over the world. Oppressive and dictating nations like North Korea, Russia (Crimea & Ukraine), Iraq during Saddam (Kuwait), have to be watched and kept in check.

To understand Part 2 of my blog, please go to Part 1 first: The World-Changing Events of the 1940s – Part 1

Below is an outline of events, that spanned over a 12 year period, during which this maniac was able to bring himself to power and turn an entire nation; these are the  subsequent turns of events that lead to the 2nd World War:

• Hitler’s Upcoming Struggle, December 20, 1924 –

• Adolf Hitler has been freed after only eight months in Landesberg Prison, where he was serving a sentence for High Treason after a failed attempt at a coup with Erich Ludendorff and other sympathetic members of the police and military last year. The coup had been modeled on Mussolini’s “March on Rome,” and Hitler had hoped to make his own “march on Berlin,” but several important factions withdrew their support at the last hour. Hitler’s imprisonment was turned into something of a publicity stunt by the ambitious leader of the Nazi Party. His original sentence was for five years, but after having found favor with the judiciary, prison guards, and other influential supporters, it was cut short. Adolf Hitler’s time in prison was predominantly spent
• dictating his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) to his deputy Rudolf Hess. The book is both an autobiography and a political manifesto.

°     Germany, August 29, 1933,  

• Adolf Hitler now has total constitutional power in Germany and changes are underway throughout the nation with the abolition of all other political parties. It has also been confirmed that the Oranienburg concentration camp, which will be used to confine any political opponents and jews found to be in the way of Hitler’s vision for a new Germany, has been opened outside Berlin. Under new laws, such citizens may now be imprisoned without a trial or any right of appeal. Similar camps in Dachau in southern Germany, Buchenwald in central Germany, and Sachsenhausen near Berlin will all serve similar purposes. New laws allow anyone to inform on any person toward whom they have a grudge, and warrants state only: “In Article One of the Reich President for Protection of People and State of 28 February 1933, you are taken into protective custody in the interest of public security and order. Reason: Suspicion of activities inimical to the State.” Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30 this year and the passing of his Enabling Act on March 23 ended democracy for Germany. The act was passed in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin following the burning of the Reichstag building (the traditional seat of the German government).

   

  The only man to oppose Hitler on that was Otto Wells, the leader of the Social Democrats, who said, “We Germans Social Democrats pledge ourselves solemnly in this historic hour to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No enabling act can give you the power to destroy ideas that are eternal and indestructible.” Hitler was enraged and responded with ” You are no longer needed! The star of Germany will rise and yours will sink! Your death knell has sounded!”

• Germany, August 2, 1934, 

• Following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, age 86, Adolf Hitler, proclaims himself Führer and Dictator of Germany, making him both Head of State and Chancellor within two months’ time.  Leaving a clear route for Adolf Hitler to merge his current position as chancellor into one. The armed forces are forced to swear an oath of allegiance.
• Berlin, Germany, November 9, 1933,
•  Jewish shops, homes, and synagogues are looted or destroyed as Hitler’s anti-Jewish scheme is unleashed throughout Germany.
• Germany, March 22, 1933,
• The first Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, near Munich, begins operation.
• Berlin, Germany, April 1, 1933,
• The nazi government uses violence to orchestrate its boycott of Jewish business, forcing stores to close and barring professionals from their offices.
• Berlin, Germany, April 11, 1933,
• The nazis decree “non-Aryans” to include anyone descended from non-Aryan, particularly Jewish parents or grandparents.
• Germany, August 29, 1933,
• Jews and socialists are herded into concentration camps.
• Berlin, Germany, January 1, 1934
• , A nazi law forcing people with genetic defects to be sterilized comes into effect in Germany.
• Berlin, Germany, January 15, 1934,
• Germany and Poland sign a 10-year non-aggressive pact following a period of tension.
• Nuremberg, Germany, September 15, 1935,
• The Nuremberg decree legalizes the Nazi prosecution of Jews.
• Germany, March 7, 1936,
• France decides a large military force will be needed after German troops reoccupy the Rhineland.
• Germany, November 25, 1936, Germany signs an anti-Comintern pact with Japan to protect the country’s common interests.
• Rome, Italy, August 3, 1938

  , Mussolini introduces his anti-semitic laws into <italy, following the lead of his German allies.

• Munich, Germany, September 30, 1938, The Munich Agreement made by Germany, Italy, Britain, and France, allows Hitler to take Sudetenland, and Hungry and Poland to take border districts from Czechoslovakia. Another resolution is signed to resolve future disputes between Britain and Germany peacefully.
• Czechoslovakia, October 5, 1938,
• Hitler’s army marched into Czechoslovakia, on March 16th occupies Prague, and becomes a Nazi protectorate.
• Berlin, Germany, November 9, 1938, Jewish shops, homes, and synagogues are looted or destroyed as Hitler’s ant-Jewish scheme is unleashed throughout Germany.
• Rome, Italy, May 22, 1939,
• Mussolini signs a military pact with Hitler, obligating Italy to fight alongside Germany.

• Moscow, USSR, August 23, 1939,

• Hitler and Stalin sign a nazi-Soviet pact of non-aggression that divides Eastern Europe between Germany and the USSR.

• Poland, on September 1, 1939,

• German forces invade Poland from Germany in the west, East Prussia in the north, and Czechoslovakia in the south.

• Europe, September 3, 1939,

• Britain & France declare war on Germany in accord with treaty obligations to Poland. They are followed by New Zealand, Australia, and India.
• Poland, September 29, 1939,
• Warsaw surrenders; 700,000 Polish troops are taken, prisoners.
• Germany, October 1939,
• The Nazis begin a program to euthanize the sick and disabled in Germany.

• Finnland, November 30, 1939,

• The USSR attacks Finland after their strategic negotiations on November 12 fail.
• Europe, February 20, 1940

  ,Hitler orders his U-boat captains to attack all shipping, Allied vessels, and neutral ships alike.

• Europe, May 10, 1940,

• After invading Norway and Denmark on April 9, Germany now invades Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, and France.
• Berlin, Germany, September 27, 1940

  , Japan, Germany, and Italy sign a 10-year pact. They met in Berlin to sign an agreement recognizing each other’s spheres of interests, as well as promising to come to one another’s aid should one of them be attacked by any state “not now a belligerent.” This is being seen as a warning to both the United States and the USSR to remain neutral in the current conflict. Article 6 of what is now being referred to as the Three-Power-Pact states it will come into effect “immediately upon signing and shall remain in force 10 years” from that day.

• The UK, November 30, 1940

  , Germany is mass bombing regional cities, Glasgow, Birmingham, Coventry, Manchester, and Sheffield have been hit.

• London, England, December 29, 1940,
• The city burns from more than 10,000 German firebombs.

• Yugoslavia, April 17, 1941,

• The country surrenders after Germany occupies Sarajevo.

• Greece, April 30, 1941,

• Most of Greece is under German and Italian occupation, German forces took Athens on April 26.
• Crete, Greece, June 1, 1941,
• German forces take the island of Crete in a bloody battle, Allied troops are evacuated to Egypt.

• USSR, June 22, 1941

  , Germany invades the USSR, breaking the Nazi-Soviet pact.

• Honolulu, Hawaii, December 7, 1941,

• Japanese planes make a surprise attack on the US fleet at Pearl Harbour.
• Washington DC, USA, December 8, 1941

  , The USA, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Japan.

• The USA, December 11, 1941

  The USA reciprocates  Germany’s and Italy’s declaration of war.

• Central America, December 11, 1941,

• Cuba, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic declared war on Germany and Italy.
• Europe, December 12, 1941,
• Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria declared war on the USA.

• Hongkong, December 25, 1941,

• Japan seizes HongKong
• St.Petersburg, USSR, December 25, 1941,
• Over 3000 people have starved to death since the German siege on the city began in September.
• Washington DC, USA, January 1, 1942,
• The Declaration of the United Nations to pledge support for the Atlantic Charter is signed by 26 countries.
• Berlin, Germany, January 20, 1942,
• In the meantime, Nazi leaders at the Wannsee Conference structure the “final solution of the Jewish question,” aiming to exterminate over 11 million European Jews.
• Italy, July 25, 1943
• Premier Benito Mussolini is ousted. New Marshal Pietro Badoglio places him under arrest. Badoglio declares Italy is no longer a fascist state.
• Italy, October 13, 1943,
• Badoglio declares war on Germany.
• Poland, on January 27, 1944,
• Soviet forces seize the concentration camp at Auschwitz, find 50000 starving prisoners left near death, the remainder having already herded out.
  Milan, Italy, April 28, 1945,
• Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are strung up for public display after being shot dead.
• Germany, April 1945,
• Allied forces discover dens of horror in the Nazi concentration camps, finding starved, critically ill, captives, and grounds piled with rotting corpses.
• Berlin, April 30, 1945
• Hitler suicide in his bunker by shooting himself. His newlywed wife, Eva brown, poisons herself and dies.
• London, England, May 8, 1945,
• Crowds of spectators jam London’s street to hear Churchill’s broadcast announcing the war in Europe will end at midnight. Around 50,000 gleeful revelers take to the streets, singing, dancing, and embracing.
• Reims, France, May 7, 1945,
• Germany signs its surrender after the foreign minister gives notice in a radio broadcast.

• Japan, August 6 -9, 1945

  , The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagaski.

• Japan, August 15, 1945,

• Japan signs an unconditional surrender to the Allied powers.

      Your blogging friend Ulrich Koepf

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The size, weight, and more importantly, the price, of bread, is to become standardized. In a decree called the Assize of Bread and Ale, King Henry III has requested uniformity in the production of this staple food to avoid major price variations and to weed out any dishonest pricing practice

The Assize was enacted in response to the perceived shortage of grain and wheat. Because farmers only grow wheat in small quantities, prices vary each season. Although there have been cases of unprincipled bakers overcharging for bread in lean times, there have also been some cases where bakers have been mobbed by angry people who believe that bread is being kept from the population.

The Assize of Bread

and Ale is designed to regulate the industry, providing not only bread but fair prices too. Bakers who sell underweight loaves will now be subject to fines or other punishments. Some bakers are now selling 13 loaves at a time to make sure that the total weight complies with the regulations.

and so it was, they say!!!😀

The Mayan civilization

cultivated it in the Yucatan peninsula as early as 600 CE. and drank it with chili. Hernandez Cortez introduced it to Spain in 1528, and for almost 100 years Spain guarded it as a secret. It has been used as a currency, as precious as gold, and though in France many people considered it a “barbarous product and noxious drug.” there were others who considered it an aphrodisiac.

What is it? It’s cocoa- and its beans are roasted and ground to produce cacao powder.

Cacao trees

are native to tropical America. The French, Dutch, and English all cultivate it in their colonies, and so cacao has started to reach a wider audience, though it has so far been relatively expensive to produce.

That is, until this year.

Dutch chemist Coenraad van Houten has invented an effective method of extracting the cocoa oil and leaving a cake to be ground into powder. His innovative and inexpensive process uses a hydraulic press to extract much of the cocoa butter from the center of the bean. The residue is then mixed together with alkaline salts, which ensure that the cocoa powder can be easily mixed with water or milk. (The alkali neutralizes the acidic chocolate.) This new process is being called dutching or Dutch processing.   No longer reserved for the aristocracy and the upper classes, cocoa powder is now set to become a firm favorite with people everywhere.

Spain, 1496

The Spanish court is buzzing with excitement at their first taste of a succulent new fruit brought back to Europe by Christopher Columbus after his second voyage to the New World.

This exotic fruit

has become known as a “pineapple” because it looks just like a large pinecone. It is native to southern Brazil and Paraguay where it was spread by the Indians northward through South and Central America to the West Indies. Columbus discovered the fruit when he lowered anchor in a cove off the lush volcanic island of Guadeloupe in 1493 and rowed ashore to inspect a deserted Carib village, where he found cultivated plants bearing fruit.

The pineapple has become a “Regal” fruit, an item of celebrity and curiosity for royal gourmets and horticulturalists alike.

and so it happened! they say!

Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon, France, 1411

The residents

of the town of Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon are sporting cheesy grins today. King Charles VI has given them exclusive rights to produce their famous smelly cheese. In.  an effort to stamp out inferior imitations of the cheese, genuine Roquefort now can only be produced at Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon, being aged in the nearby caves that produce the particular mold that is responsible for this unique cheese.

A similar style

of cheese has been in existence since Roman times. Mention of it can even be found in the writings of the great Roman historian Pliny. The cheese was a particular favorite of the emperor Charlemagne, and a captivating legend surrounds its discovery.

The story

says that a local shepherd once thought he saw a beautiful woman in the distance and left his sheep to pursue her. He also left his lunch of rye bread and cheese in one of the dark caves of the Grotte du Combalou. When he returned some weeks later, sadly without the young woman, the air currents in the cave, combined with the dampness of the rocks, had caused an odd blue mold to grow in streaks along the surface of the ewe’s milk cheese. The shepherd ran down to the village shouting: “It’s a miracle, it’s a miracle.” The people of the town gathered around him, tasted his cheese, and liked it!

Ever since

then the limestone caves of Mount Combalou near Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon have been used for the production of this famous blue cheese. The cheesemakers still use milk from ewes that graze on the Aveyron Plateau. The cheese is white, crumbly, and slightly moist, with distinctive veins of blue mold that produce a sharp tang. It has no rind, and the exterior of the cheese is edible and slightly salty.

Next time you enjoy a piece of that cheese, remember where it came from¨Bon Appetite!

“FRENCH COOKING’S ALL VERY WELL, BUT THEY CAN’T DO A DECENT ENGLISH BREAKFAST.”

quote by: Prince Philip, England

New Haven, Connecticut, USA, December 1900

A small lunch

wagon that sells steak sandwiches to local factory workers in tiny New Haven, Connecticut, has served what they are calling a “hamburger,” which was hastily made for a man who dashed off the street asking for a quick meal that he could eat on the run.

According to

the diner’s owner, the “snack” consisted of a hurriedly broiled beef patty thrown between two slices of bread. “I don’t like to waste the excess beef from the daily lunch rush, so I ground it up, grilled it, and served it in a sandwich..”

The chef preferred not to be identified. And so it is! or was😃