Papal Diets...

                                                 

Let's slip out to McD's for some fries, Holiness.      

You  probably know a Pope died recently. Foodie noted one report on JPII, when he was still described as "recuperating," that said he had eaten "Caffé e latte con 10 piccoli biscotti e uno yogourt" ...Coffee and milk with 10 little cookies and a yogurt.   
Or were they really biscotti, the hard as wood, must-be-dunked-in-tea-or-coffee-to-be-chewed,  items offered next to the register at every coffee bar in North America?


Foodie will never know, but she did stumble on a book she is hot to explore--it's called "Buon Appetito, Your Holiness: The Secrets of the Papal Table," by  Mariangela Vicini and Mariangela
Rinaldi.

What secrets? In the 13th century Pope Martin IV evidently loved eels waayyyy to much,  and Pope Joan, RC's only female pontiff ( 9th c.) adored "paprika oysters".  Foodie finds this dubious as paprika was derived from chile peppers, and these were growing way across the ocean delighting native Americans at that point, and unknown to Europeans. ( Except possibly those rascally Basques!)  The Catholic Encyclopedia denies the Popess ever existed, but then... the legend relates that  Joan was said to have given birth quite inappropriately while on a papal procession and the crowd lost no time in stoning her to death. No word as to the fate of her child.

Anyway, turning back to JP II. Did he demand  kielbasa for breakfast?  Have a Papal penchant for sushi?  Foodie will let you know.

 

Comments

[Foodie]

Foodie just Googled pierogi recipe and got this site that looks like the real deal. You can make these yourself, Barb! Doesn't look too hard at all.
http://home.comcast.net/~dyrgcmn/Pierogi/pierogi.html

[barb]

My guess is that John Paulie ate kielbasa only for lunch and dinner, often with hot as hell horseradish. I'm half Polish and grew up in a very Polish neighborhood so I know that Poles are more likely to eat CAKE or COFFEECAKE for breakfast than snausage of any kind. At least the Chicago variety was known for that practice.

Rats, discussing Polish food has given me a taste for a homemade pierogi. Alas, these are few and far between in New Mexico and I lack the skill to make them...