A true story behind Carême

A The new period of drama Apple TV+ offers the first story of Antonin Carême.

Carême During the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte after the French Revolution. Benjamin Voisin player chef hires French Foreign Minister Charles-Maurice de Telamilland-Périgord (Jérémie Renier) to make creative confectionery products that impress the people he negotiates.

Here you will find what to know about the true chef who inspired Carême.

What is true Carême know

“He's the first chef to have become rich and famous publishers,” says Ian Kelly, the creator Carême who wrote you can inspire a book, Carême: First Celebrity Chef. “Carême created the phrase in his second cookbook:” You could try it at home yourself. “” ”

He was also a pioneer chef's hat, wearing a strong white hat that was taller than the white hats wearing the chefs working for him. In an early example of celebrity chef confirmation, he directed his readers to the store where they could buy it.

However, many of his famous recipes are difficult to make on its own. Classic French dishes among the Carême pioneer was a vol-au-Vent, filling Lehtsa with delicious foods, and Tournedos Rossini, a French steak with Foie Gras. He once said, “My soul is a French language and I can't live in France.

Food has long been a form of diplomacy in France, led to the best of the country with its allies. And Carême was, according to Kelly, “a passionate artist who wants food and be a chef”.

For example, Carême outlines a large triangular structure covered with a thin paper, and when it lights up this paper, it will expose a triangular recorder with a large sweet tooth to the British ambassador. This stunt shows something Carême once said: “I believe that architecture is the first among arts and the main branch of architecture is confectionery.”

The period in which the show takes place, the 19th century, a highly designed French cuisine. According to Kelly, the French turned to food after the trauma of the revolution. “There was no restaurant in Paris before the revolution, and from that period the idea of ​​gastronomy was born,” Kelly explains.

Carême mystery

There is a lot of dish beyond the kitchen.

In the broadcast, Carême's food appetite is the only thing that is his sexual appetite. She is a hit with a ladies with a left and right, including seducing Napoleon's beloved Josephine. Their thing is the creative freedom of the show, but the story is inspired by Josephine's life. In reality, Josephine could not carry children and wanted to ban divorce in France to prevent Napoleon from leaving. “It's all historically accurate,” says Kelly. Carême gets into this mess because she cooks Marie-Louise to Habsburg, who is brought to Napoleon to marry and gives him a heir to the throne.

How much of his high sex car at the exhibition is based on real life, Kelly says, “We don't know much, but what we know very definitively in this direction.”

According to Kelly, there was a lot of space for a creative license because so little is known about Carême. If the chef boasts that his foods were drug properties – especially soups and consoles – is a scene where he uses bitter herbs to treat Napoleon when he is ill, fictional.

It is also difficult to control the stories he told about his childhood. The chef claimed that his family abandoned him at the age of nine, and he took the baker.

“He was a myth maker,” says Kelly.

Sharp tongue

Kelly's book is full of chef's wisdom pieces. Carême saw cookbooks as the chef's biggest legacy, writing in 1830, three years before his death: “Our only court after cooking is to save and publish. If not, we will suffer such regret.”

He was a confident belief that dinner meals should last at least two hours, ideally three or more. And he did not hold back when it comes to people who don't like food by writing, “A rich man who eats only to live, lives in the mediocrity of his life, and dies in it” and “a rich man who does not appreciate a good chef, never know the indescribable joy.”