Thursday, January 19, 2023

Potage Parmentier

 


Potato leek soup. One of my favorites. From Giangi's Kitchen:

Antoine Parmentier was a young, trained chemist. Not able to open his pharmacy. Therefore, he decided to join the army and was sent to Hanover in 1757. Here, he discovered potato soup served by the Prussian while he was their prisoner of war. Parmentier was so impressed with the nutritional qualities of the potatoes that he launched a campaign to promote it, stressing the benefits and a way to alleviate hunger. In 1786 King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette embraced the potatoes by telling Parmentier that France was grateful for discovering the bread of the poor. Streets bore his name throughout France and many French dishes were based on potatoes. (Read more.)


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