nPostednon December 5, 2015
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nHowndoes the U.S. manage to have a National Sachertorte Day – whennSachertorte is a Viennese culinary specialty?!
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n(Translationntime! Vienna is a famous city in Austria. Culinary means “ofncooking” – so a culinary specialty is a special dish, anparticular food that a place or person is known for. In this case, anspecial food that Vienna is known for!)
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nSachertortenis a kind of chocolate cake, or torte. It was invented by a fellownnamed Franz Sacher. I guess you can see where the name for thisnfamous dessert comes from!
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nNow,nnotice that I didn’t say that this famous cake was invented by anfamed chef. I didn’t even say it was invented by a “man” – Inused the word “fellow.” That’s because the cake was invented by anteenager, just an apprentice to a chef! That’s pretty cool, huh?
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nHere’snhow it happened:
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nInn1832, Prince Wenzel von Metternich asked his personal chef to createna special dessert for some important guests. But the head chef becamenill! So the 16 year old apprentice, Sacher, had to make a specialndessert for the VIPs.
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nThenPrince probably was a bit nervous about this. He is reported to havenbegged, “Let there be no shame on me tonight!” But the torte thatnSacher made ended up delighting the guests.
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nHappynguests, happy hosts.
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nHappynteenage apprentice?
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nI’mnsure that Sacher was pleased at his success, but it wasn’t until anlong time later than his cake became famous. First, he had to finishnhis training and apprenticeship. Later, he spent time in severalnother towns and nations before returning to his hometown, Vienna. Heneven had to marry and have children and raise his firstborn to be annadult…
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nAndnat that point, Eduard Sacher, who went into the family biz ofncooking, kept making and serving his father’s special chocolate cake.nActually, he ended up tweaking the recipe, and he was the one whondeveloped the current form of the torte. n
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nActually,nthe Sacher family served this special cake at a particular bakery andnat a particular hotel restaurant, and in the 1930s a big brouhahanbroke out between the bakery and the hotel over the rights to labelntheir cakes “The Original Sachertorte.” We’re talking lawsuitsnand court time and witnesses and testimony… (Wait ’til they hearnthat the U.S. has declared a National Sachertorte Day!)
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| Notice that all of these cakes have the word “Sachertorte” or “Sacher” on the cake, in many cases on each piece – or at least the letter “S”! |
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n These two photos show the bakery’s version (above)
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nversus the hotel’s version (below).
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| Note that “Wien” is the name of Vienna in German (the language that is spoken in Vienna and all of Austria). In German, the letter “w” is pronounced like the English “v,” and the German letter “v” is generally pronounced like the English “f.” |
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nWhatnmakes this chocolate cake so special – worth fighting for, even in court? Apparently there is a layer (orntwo) of apricot jam between the chocolate icing and the cake itself.nBut of course, as you can imagine, the actual recipe for the dense,nsmooth cake is a closely guarded secret!
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nPhysicistnWerner Heisenberg’s birthday
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nSinterklaasnin the Netherlands
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nSkywarn Recognition Day
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nDaynof the Ninja (aka Creep like a Ninja Day)
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nAnniversarynof Mozart’s Death
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nEducatornElizabeth Cabot Agassiz’s birthday
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