I am a regular reader of Le Menu magazine, dealing with cuisine.
They always issue a special in the back on regional or country-specific recipes.
I've always enjoyed them until I read the September 2009 edition featuring "American
Cuisine" by a certain Book Author and Professor at the University of Zurich...and I am appalled!!!!
Is it that since she is a Professor means that she can just say an old crap and it must be correct???
Any American on this site will know that Pumpkin Pie is NOT a Quiche, as she presented it with BACON, GARLIC, ONIONS, AND CHEESE!!!!!!!! Pumpkin Pie is a well-known DESSERT...with sugar!!!!!!!!! So, anybody reading that magazine will be quite disappointed when or if they travel there and discover they have been quite misinformed!!!
Another "American dish" she presented is Cheesecake.....with Quark and mascarpone...two ingredients hard to find in the USA, if at all....I've never seen them in any grocery store. Maybe they make the cheesecake better, but not at all American...not traditionally or commonly anyway.....
I just had to let everyone know!!
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Sep 7, 2009 @ 22:22
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I am a regular reader of Le Menu magazine, dealing with cuisine.
They always issue a special in the back on regional or country-specific recipes.
I've always enjoyed them until I read the September 2009 edition featuring "American
Cuisine" by a certain Book Author and Professor at the University of Zurich...and I am appalled!!!!
Is it that since she is a Professor means that she can just say an old crap and it must be correct???
Any American on this site will know that Pumpkin Pie is NOT a Quiche, as she presented it with BACON, GARLIC, ONIONS, AND CHEESE!!!!!!!! Pumpkin Pie is a well-known DESSERT...with sugar!!!!!!!!! So, anybody reading that magazine will be quite disappointed when or if they travel there and discover they have been quite misinformed!!!
Another "American dish" she presented is Cheesecake.....with Quark and mascarpone...two ingredients hard to find in the USA, if at all....I've never seen them in any grocery store. Maybe they make the cheesecake better, but not at all American...not traditionally or commonly anyway.....
I just had to let everyone know!!
DanusiaSep 7, 2009 @ 22:22
They always issue a special in the back on regional or country-specific recipes.
I've always enjoyed them until I read the September 2009 edition featuring "American
Cuisine" by a certain Book Author and Professor at the University of Zurich...and I am appalled!!!!
Is it that since she is a Professor means that she can just say an old crap and it must be correct???
Any American on this site will know that Pumpkin Pie is NOT a Quiche, as she presented it with BACON, GARLIC, ONIONS, AND CHEESE!!!!!!!! Pumpkin Pie is a well-known DESSERT...with sugar!!!!!!!!! So, anybody reading that magazine will be quite disappointed when or if they travel there and discover they have been quite misinformed!!!
Another "American dish" she presented is Cheesecake.....with Quark and mascarpone...two ingredients hard to find in the USA, if at all....I've never seen them in any grocery store. Maybe they make the cheesecake better, but not at all American...not traditionally or commonly anyway.....
I just had to let everyone know!!
DanusiaSep 7, 2009 @ 22:22
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Sep 8, 2009 @ 07:47
Wow wow wow that's an update! thanks for the warning. What do they know these professors living by the Limmatquai... "fake" american cuisine... it's clearly anti-american propaganda, a disinformation effort to retaliate for the UBS-crisis, the kind of stuff Swiss secret services would come with on a rainy weekend lol
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Wow wow wow that's an update! thanks for the warning. What do they know these professors living by the Limmatquai... "fake" american cuisine... it's clearly anti-american propaganda, a disinformation effort to retaliate for the UBS-crisis, the kind of stuff Swiss secret services would come with on a rainy weekend lol
Gentlman4evr, Sep 8, 2009 @ 07:47
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Sep 8, 2009 @ 07:58
..btw I truly love cheesecake, and double-decked hamburgers w extra bacon, and root-beer, and.. and..
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..btw I truly love cheesecake, and double-decked hamburgers w extra bacon, and root-beer, and.. and..
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Sep 8, 2009 @ 09:15
LOL
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Sep 8, 2009 @ 09:27
...and I am not referring to the plague of the fast food culture.....but the traditional cuisine...and Cheesecake and Pumpkin Pie are traditional.
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...and I am not referring to the plague of the fast food culture.....but the traditional cuisine...and Cheesecake and Pumpkin Pie are traditional.
Danusia, Sep 8, 2009 @ 09:27
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Sep 8, 2009 @ 12:46
Thank you for your response "Justdoit" !
I did send a letter...in German....and I hope it will be read.
You can find cream cheese here in Switzerland...in Volg, Coop, as well as Migros....
All ingredients for both recipes are available in Switzerland because I make both desserts from time to time.
The Professor has, according to the article, an American parent and a German parent.....but I think that the American parent didn't impart much to her knowledge of American cuisine......or perhaps she doesn't like the genuine recipes and gave what she likes...though that is just Her personal thing, and not American at all. I find it rather humourous that, thinking a Pumpkin pie has bacon, etc. in it, and one makes it for American friends, collegues, etc. one would look stupid..... or if in a restaurant, I order it for lunch, thinking it is like a quiche!!! LOL!!!!
I did send a letter...in German....and I hope it will be read.
You can find cream cheese here in Switzerland...in Volg, Coop, as well as Migros....
All ingredients for both recipes are available in Switzerland because I make both desserts from time to time.
The Professor has, according to the article, an American parent and a German parent.....but I think that the American parent didn't impart much to her knowledge of American cuisine......or perhaps she doesn't like the genuine recipes and gave what she likes...though that is just Her personal thing, and not American at all. I find it rather humourous that, thinking a Pumpkin pie has bacon, etc. in it, and one makes it for American friends, collegues, etc. one would look stupid..... or if in a restaurant, I order it for lunch, thinking it is like a quiche!!! LOL!!!!
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Thank you for your response "Justdoit" !
I did send a letter...in German....and I hope it will be read.
You can find cream cheese here in Switzerland...in Volg, Coop, as well as Migros....
All ingredients for both recipes are available in Switzerland because I make both desserts from time to time.
The Professor has, according to the article, an American parent and a German parent.....but I think that the American parent didn't impart much to her knowledge of American cuisine......or perhaps she doesn't like the genuine recipes and gave what she likes...though that is just Her personal thing, and not American at all. I find it rather humourous that, thinking a Pumpkin pie has bacon, etc. in it, and one makes it for American friends, collegues, etc. one would look stupid..... or if in a restaurant, I order it for lunch, thinking it is like a quiche!!! LOL!!!!
Danusia, Sep 8, 2009 @ 12:46
I did send a letter...in German....and I hope it will be read.
You can find cream cheese here in Switzerland...in Volg, Coop, as well as Migros....
All ingredients for both recipes are available in Switzerland because I make both desserts from time to time.
The Professor has, according to the article, an American parent and a German parent.....but I think that the American parent didn't impart much to her knowledge of American cuisine......or perhaps she doesn't like the genuine recipes and gave what she likes...though that is just Her personal thing, and not American at all. I find it rather humourous that, thinking a Pumpkin pie has bacon, etc. in it, and one makes it for American friends, collegues, etc. one would look stupid..... or if in a restaurant, I order it for lunch, thinking it is like a quiche!!! LOL!!!!
Danusia, Sep 8, 2009 @ 12:46
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Sep 25, 2009 @ 12:23
Thank you for your response "Justdoit" !
I did send a letter...in German....and I hope it will be read.
You can find cream cheese here in Switzerland...in Volg, Coop, as well as Migros....
All ingredients for both recipes are available in Switzerland because I make both desserts from time to time.
The Professor has, according to the article, an American parent and a German parent.....but I think that the American parent didn't impart much to her knowledge of American cuisine......or perhaps she doesn't like the genuine recipes and gave what she likes...though that is just Her personal thing, and not American at all. I find it rather humourous that, thinking a Pumpkin pie has bacon, etc. in it, and one makes it for American friends, collegues, etc. one would look stupid..... or if in a restaurant, I order it for lunch, thinking it is like a quiche!!! LOL!!!!
Sep 8, 09 12:46
I did send a letter...in German....and I hope it will be read.
You can find cream cheese here in Switzerland...in Volg, Coop, as well as Migros....
All ingredients for both recipes are available in Switzerland because I make both desserts from time to time.
The Professor has, according to the article, an American parent and a German parent.....but I think that the American parent didn't impart much to her knowledge of American cuisine......or perhaps she doesn't like the genuine recipes and gave what she likes...though that is just Her personal thing, and not American at all. I find it rather humourous that, thinking a Pumpkin pie has bacon, etc. in it, and one makes it for American friends, collegues, etc. one would look stupid..... or if in a restaurant, I order it for lunch, thinking it is like a quiche!!! LOL!!!!
Sep 8, 09 12:46
It is good that you have pointed it out to the editors of Le Menu and maybe you could write to the author, but don't be outraged by it. It happens all the time, a dish from one country is mangled in name or ingredients in another. It may not even be the fault of the author. She may have wrote "quiche" (which is what it sounds like, a squash "quiche") and the editors changed it to "pie" by mistake.
And as far as the cheesecake is concerned it is not native to the US, not even "NY style" cheesecake is. There are lots of different receipes for cheesecake in the states. A mixture of mascarpone (a very soft "creamy" cheese and Quark a harder slightly tart cream cheese) could combine to make "Philadelphia" style cream cheese (which is also not native to the states). "Philadelphia" cream cheese is just a brand not a specific type of cheese (it may have started out as one though). The author probably used it so that those people who don't have access to the American style cream cheese can still enjoy an american style desert. I imagine there are quite a few people who would rather not purhase the overly processed, over priced, "Kraft Philadelphia" cream cheese.
And as far as the cheesecake is concerned it is not native to the US, not even "NY style" cheesecake is. There are lots of different receipes for cheesecake in the states. A mixture of mascarpone (a very soft "creamy" cheese and Quark a harder slightly tart cream cheese) could combine to make "Philadelphia" style cream cheese (which is also not native to the states). "Philadelphia" cream cheese is just a brand not a specific type of cheese (it may have started out as one though). The author probably used it so that those people who don't have access to the American style cream cheese can still enjoy an american style desert. I imagine there are quite a few people who would rather not purhase the overly processed, over priced, "Kraft Philadelphia" cream cheese.
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It is good that you have pointed it out to the editors of Le Menu and maybe you could write to the author, but don't be outraged by it. It happens all the time, a dish from one country is mangled in name or ingredients in another. It may not even be the fault of the author. She may have wrote "quiche" (which is what it sounds like, a squash "quiche") and the editors changed it to "pie" by mistake.
And as far as the cheesecake is concerned it is not native to the US, not even "NY style" cheesecake is. There are lots of different receipes for cheesecake in the states. A mixture of mascarpone (a very soft "creamy" cheese and Quark a harder slightly tart cream cheese) could combine to make "Philadelphia" style cream cheese (which is also not native to the states). "Philadelphia" cream cheese is just a brand not a specific type of cheese (it may have started out as one though). The author probably used it so that those people who don't have access to the American style cream cheese can still enjoy an american style desert. I imagine there are quite a few people who would rather not purhase the overly processed, over priced, "Kraft Philadelphia" cream cheese.
Maplady, Sep 25, 2009 @ 12:23
And as far as the cheesecake is concerned it is not native to the US, not even "NY style" cheesecake is. There are lots of different receipes for cheesecake in the states. A mixture of mascarpone (a very soft "creamy" cheese and Quark a harder slightly tart cream cheese) could combine to make "Philadelphia" style cream cheese (which is also not native to the states). "Philadelphia" cream cheese is just a brand not a specific type of cheese (it may have started out as one though). The author probably used it so that those people who don't have access to the American style cream cheese can still enjoy an american style desert. I imagine there are quite a few people who would rather not purhase the overly processed, over priced, "Kraft Philadelphia" cream cheese.
Maplady, Sep 25, 2009 @ 12:23
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