Hey Cook’n’Blend, Maurizio here.
In year 1859 a kid named Auguste Escoffier
starts working as apprentice
 in his uncle restaurant in Niece.
31 years later, in the 1890
he gets to direct the London Savoy’s kitchen
becoming as a fact one
of the most acclaimed chef of that time.
Imagine that also the notorius
future Vietnam’s prime minister
Ho Chi Minh worked for him
as pastry cook.
In 1934 Auguste wrote a book,
"Ma Cuisine", my cousin
where he describes
97 different kind of sauces.
SAUCE
the base of any country’s cuisine.
But what is a sauce? Sauce is liquid,
creaming or semi-solid seasoning
served on or used
in preparing other foods
Standing to the famous chef
Livio Cerini da Castegnate
the idea of sauce could
be born when prehistoric man
looking at something dripping from a spit roasted lamb,
took it with his finger, tasted it
and realizing it was pleasant,
poured it on ash cooked snails.
This could be the way sauce was born.
From the latin word Sal
salt, that was the base of those seasonings.
Seasonings, in fact are the base of ancient
Rome’s cuisine, expecially the fish sauce
Garum
that was used on any kind of dishes.
So basically any food had
this fucking gross garum on it!
Long time has passed since then.
But think about it.
When is the last time you had pasta
and you didn’t put a sauce on it?
But sauce is not only that
one you use on your spaghetti.
Sauce can be cold, like mayo or mustard.
Or prepared cold to be heated later,
like pesto.
Or they can even be liquid seasonings
like soy sauce or teriyaki sauce.
Sauce is a concentrate of flavours available at your fingertips to enhance your dishes.
June 24th of 2010, the american neuropsychologist,
Michael Stevens
opens the
VSAUCE YouTube channel
and quickly gets a huge success
with his funny and interesting videos.
V like Video and Sauce like… Sauce!
What is the reasong of this
name’s choice is still a mistery
but the thing that concerns us
happens further on.
Some time ago,
Michael meets Jamie Oliver
famous cook, english tv host
and cooking book writer
 as well as huge fan
of italian cuisine.
The two together decide to make a sauce for real,
the Vsauce.
Nobody knows yet what
the Vsauce tastes like
but Michael Stevens pushed
so much for me to taste it.
Imagine that he even called me
at the phone and said:
"Hey Maurizio, I send you the Vsauce
that is a smoothie I did
because they are blended
ingrediends after all…"
It’s a smoothie I did and given
that you are a great smoothie expert I want you to taste it.
And I said: "ok Michael, no problem
I’ll do that!"
Now, because it was made by Jamie Oliver
that goes around the british schools
to check on kid’s food healt
he’s still a englishman, and so…
let’s hope for the best!
Give it a bump!
Bitch!
Toasted bread and Vsauce, the perfect match
between blended and solid food.
Let’s taste it!
The flavour is good, you can feel the blending
of irish camels, etruscan wildboars.
Mmmmh delicious!
Well, given that Michael Stevens
demonstrated with his Vsauce
in collaboration with Jamie Oliver
that blended is better,
he was right!
And I am right too.
Blended is better, also from Vsauce!
...and as always, thanks for watching.
