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Chances are good that this will be just as bad as the usual crap on the Food Network, but it might be worth a look.
Dinner: Impossible
Episode IE0103
AIR TIMES:
February 07, 2007 10:30 PM ET/PT
February 08, 2007 1:30 AM ET/PT
February 11, 2007 4:30 PM ET/PT
February 11, 2007 11:30 PM ET/PT
February 12, 2007 2:30 AM ET/PT
Back in Time: Ye Ol’ Dinner Impossible
Chef Robert Irvine heads back to colonial times when he travels to historic Williamsburg, Virginia, where he has to prepare an 18th-century meal for food historians. Using only methods, tools and ingredients from the 1700s, will Robert be able to complete his task or will it be Dinner: Impossible?
www.foodnetwork.com/food/sho...8,00.html
Dinner: Impossible
Episode IE0103
AIR TIMES:
February 07, 2007 10:30 PM ET/PT
February 08, 2007 1:30 AM ET/PT
February 11, 2007 4:30 PM ET/PT
February 11, 2007 11:30 PM ET/PT
February 12, 2007 2:30 AM ET/PT
Back in Time: Ye Ol’ Dinner Impossible
Chef Robert Irvine heads back to colonial times when he travels to historic Williamsburg, Virginia, where he has to prepare an 18th-century meal for food historians. Using only methods, tools and ingredients from the 1700s, will Robert be able to complete his task or will it be Dinner: Impossible?
www.foodnetwork.com/food/sho...8,00.html
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Re: 18th-Century Virginia
Tue, February 6, 2007 - 9:15 PMI'm assuming that was sarcasm, Arne? ;-) -
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Re: 18th-Century Virginia
Wed, February 7, 2007 - 4:58 AMNo I saw an ad and actually wanted to see it!
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Re: 18th-Century Virginia
Sun, February 11, 2007 - 11:43 PMI caught the episode today, and I found it entertaining and somewhat informative. The fact that it took all of them 45 minutes to light a fire (without matches or lighters) was hilarious.
All of the ingredients they used seemed right for the period, with one exception: pistachios (used in the oyster-stuffed turkey dish). Did they really have access to pistachios in colonial Virginia? Interesting that the pistachios are missing from the recipe published on Food Network's site.
It's worth a look at the recipes on the website (clearly adapted for modern kitchens), though I can't say I'm motivated to try making any of them: www.foodnetwork.com/food/sho...8,00.html -
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Re: 18th-Century Virginia
Mon, February 12, 2007 - 9:06 PMI watched it starting about 10 minutes in to the show.
I thought that the 2 chefs were a bit disrespectful to the Colonial Williamsburg staff/re-enactors.
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Re: 18th-Century Virginia
Fri, May 11, 2007 - 8:45 AMIf it took 45 minutes to light a fire, they weren't getting much help from the CW staff.
Actually, I'm not sure who works over there now. With CW's emphasis on entertaining over education, or "edutainment" as we call it, there might not be a CW employee able to light a fire with flint & steel. If they were treating the CW people shabbily (as someone else posted) they might not have been as helpful as they could have been.
The difficultly in light a fire is exactly the reason fires were banked and not extinguished in the past.
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