1 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Favor production of I Heart Radio 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: and Annie Reese and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and today we 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: have an episode for you about crapes. Yes, crapes also 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: fun with pronunciation. Oh my goodness, Why do we always 5 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: do this to ourselves? I don't know. The other option 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: you floated was we were in we were in dire 7 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: straits thee. Yeah. Annie was like, oh, this is gonna 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: be another fun with French one. And I was like, 9 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: as opposed to the Lootisk episode, which is going to 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: be easy sailing pronunciation wise. Yeah, yeah, I'm fun to 11 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: return to that one. Because I was, you know, we 12 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: choose these episodes, we kind of do some bass, some 13 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: like preliminary Yeah yeah, and it seemed really interesting. Um 14 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: what made you? Is there anything that brought crepes to mind? Gosh? 15 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: Was there? I don't know? Um? No, I was. I 16 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: was vaguely googling around, um, looking at different um holiday 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: related dishes because I'm like December, there's like holidays or something. Um, 18 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: we should do some kind of holiday themed dish. I guess, um, 19 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: and yes, uh, and then I yeah, I don't know, 20 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: I don't I'm not sure if if if crepes are 21 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: still particularly or if it's like actually like a like 22 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: a Christmas like winter holiday thing for like this end 23 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: of the winter holidays in France and elsewhere, or if 24 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: it's really more like after the new year. But either way, 25 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: I was like, that sounds delicious. I want to eat those, 26 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: so let's read about them for a while. Yes, um, 27 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: I do love I love some crepes. And also, as 28 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: Lauren and I discussed, this is similar to pout um 29 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: where we're saying it in the American crepes. Yeah, it's 30 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 1: a very American pronunciation. Um. We We actually just had 31 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 1: a had a staff meeting right before this over zoom, 32 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: and unbeknownst to me, there was a French lady on 33 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: the call who was coming to speak about some some 34 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: some stuff and uh and so and our our boss 35 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: will like kind of called on me before the meeting 36 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: started and was like, oh, Lauren, how you doing. What 37 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: are you looking into today? And I was like, crepes, 38 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: And man if I had known, if I had known 39 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: that there was an actual French speaking human from France 40 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: on the call, I would have made a vague attempt 41 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: to say creps, because because I think I think that 42 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: that's a crep. Yeah is like the way that you 43 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: should say it. That's not what I did. Man. That 44 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: always happens when you're I don't know, you're just not 45 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: anticipating surely, surely and then yes, absolutely, so yes I have. 46 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,119 Speaker 1: I've had many crepes um when I was in France, 47 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: so many. I bought so many from like street cart vendors. 48 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: I'd usually get the nutella banana, Oh yeah, yeah, good one, 49 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: good one. Or sometimes I would go savory with the 50 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: ham and cheese. I liked those two. Um. And I 51 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: was once fortunate enough to go to the Canned Film 52 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: Festival and there was a whole Rude de la Crepe. 53 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: And I looked this up because me and my my 54 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: then boyfriend, we got such a huge kick out of 55 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: this um and we kind of like joking, we'd be like, 56 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: let's go to Rude de la crepe UM. And I 57 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: couldn't find that it existed. But I think it's because 58 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: it was a It's not really a road. It was 59 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: kind of just like an alley walked through and it 60 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: just was all these craperies um. But there was a 61 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: sign that said Rue de la Crepe. I don't know 62 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: if it was temporary yeah, maybe it was there, specially 63 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: four can or yeah. Yeah, it was delicious. I had 64 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: many many a delicious crepe h on rude la. That's great. 65 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean the one of the many great 66 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: things about them is that they're they can be quite light. Yes, 67 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: they can be, so you can eat quite a number 68 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: of Yes. I love the human brain how it works 69 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, that's not that much, so I'll just 70 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: eat Yeah, yeah, well, I guess gind of speaking of 71 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 1: as always, I was thinking about Seinfeld in conjunction with 72 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: whatever we're talking as you do. Oh, of course, And 73 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: there is an episode about crepes among many, because as 74 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: I was remembering this episode, I was like, wow, what 75 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: happened in that episode? But one of the plot lines 76 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: was about crepes and Jerry accidentally like put this whole 77 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: family out of commission Um where they owned this creep 78 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: chain called I think Magic Crepe, and he felt bad, 79 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: so he like helped supply some employees to keep it running. 80 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: And they accidentally rolled the creeps too tightly and so 81 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: when everyone was cutting into them, they exploded hot liquid 82 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: into their face and then I think put them out 83 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: of business. Well, the dangers of the creep and dangers 84 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: of that. I've personally never seen such a thing happen, 85 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: but I think it would. I think there's some suspension 86 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: of disbelief there, all right, they were rolled very tightly. Also, 87 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: I thought of creepy paper from What We Do in 88 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: the Shadows, because I when I was doing my searches, 89 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: I kept getting crepe crepe paper. Sure. Yes, And there's 90 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: a joke in the show What We Do in the 91 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 1: Shadows about how Nan or the Relentless believes it's called 92 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: creepy paper, so he thinks it's so he really wants it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 93 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: He's like, no, get all of the creepy paper. It's creepy, creepy, 94 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: let's get it, yeah, which I had or Um, we're 95 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: actually coming back to crepe paper later, but yes, before that, 96 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: as we get into this, you can see our past 97 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: episodes on pancakes, nitella, maple syrup, bananas with cream, cheese, 98 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: A lot of things go in and on crepe. So yeah, 99 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: I think my favorite crepe that I've ever had was 100 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: a savory one with um with scallops in like this, 101 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: like mushroom cream sauce, um, like mushroom cream, white wine sauce, 102 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: uh out in San Francisco, I believe, at a restaurant 103 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: called the Crape House. I think so um, and it 104 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: was so good. I think I had only ever had 105 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: a sweet crepes to before that, and so this was 106 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: just like a revelation in any number of ways. Wow. 107 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: And you know, like I said, I I had gotten 108 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: some scalops after that episode. We did on them, but 109 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: my craving is not gone, like still hanging on. It's like, no, 110 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: that was really good. I would like someone I would 111 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: like all the scalops now. Yeah, that's still that is 112 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: always how I feel about scallops. I'm like, I'm like, well, 113 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: so I've had like three, what about if I had 114 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: nine more? That's that's about where I am. That's about 115 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: where I am. But all right, I guess brings us 116 00:07:54,120 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: to our question. Sure, okay, crapes what are they? Well? Uh, 117 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: Crapes are a type of a large, thin, flat pancake 118 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: that's that's tender and delicate and and just golden brown, 119 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: um and just crisp on the outer edges. To serve 120 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: and or eat you um, you fold them up either 121 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: plain or around any number of fillings. They can be 122 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: served room temperature or warm or hot with sweet or 123 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: savory spreads or fillings of any degree of fanciness from 124 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: like a simple like swipe a butter and a dust 125 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: of sugar with just a spritz of lemon juice. Um. 126 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: Or maybe like a little bit of a cooked protein 127 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: and vegetable like a yeah, like like maybe a ham 128 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: and spinaches sprinkled cheese in there, um too wildly intricate 129 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: concoctions with fancy sauces and jams and spreads and ingredients 130 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: and toppings and table side flam bays and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Um. 131 00:08:54,559 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: They're they're like a large, unfluffy pancake. Um that that 132 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: is that is excellent, like a like a like a 133 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: really good, big unfluffy pancake. Um. Or I thought of 134 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: this one and then I was like, oh man, I'm 135 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: am I going to get into trouble. Uh. They're like 136 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: if one of those wraps that you've gotten at, like 137 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: any like American like mall stand made with like a 138 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: big old flower tortilla, like one of those like twelve 139 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: inch plus flower tortillas, if that was actually ever good. 140 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: And this is when I'm like I love those. Uh well, um, 141 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad. I'm glad you like things. You know, 142 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: you get the job done. But I get what you're saying. 143 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: A good crape is far superioris yeah yeah, um uh 144 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: crepe Crepes, though are are are pretty simple, which is 145 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: part of the draw. Really. Um. The batter is just 146 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: butter flour, either wheat or buckwheat, egg and milk, um, 147 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: possibly other liquids in there too, mixed up thin um, 148 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,359 Speaker 1: like the consistency of like a like whipping cream or something. Um. 149 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: And then uh, you pour like an almost translucent layer 150 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: of batter um pour and spread that on a hot 151 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: cooking surface and then carefully flipped to brown both sides. 152 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: And that's it. I'm nervous about trying. I've never tried 153 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: to make crepes. Oh no, and given your given your 154 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: reticence about pancakes, and I've I've heard that crepes are easier, 155 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: but the flipping part is concerning to me. Crapes are easier. 156 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: That's what I've read. Okay, well, okay, maybe because it's 157 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: got the middle part. Okay, the thicker middle part. I'm dubious, 158 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: but all right, I'm also dubious. Give it a drive. Well, 159 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: there's a lot of really great guides out there. Um. 160 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: I read a really good one, um, of course on 161 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: Serious Eats by j Ken G. Lopez alt. Um he 162 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: wrote a really good one, and uh oh there's there's 163 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 1: one other maybe in the Guardian that was great anyway. Yes, um, 164 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: because crips are so flat, um and meant to be 165 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: right right tender and just a little bit of crisp 166 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: around the edges there. Um. You do want to cook 167 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: them like hot and fast on a surface that retains 168 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: heat well, like a cast iron or carbon steel. They 169 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: cook in just a couple of minutes um. And they 170 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: can be cooked on any broad, flat ish surface, from 171 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: like a grittle to a large pan. So there are 172 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: lots of specialty devices available, um, including like portable gas 173 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: or electric grittles that are specially designed for crepes, to 174 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: two pans that look inverted. Um. You pour the batter 175 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 1: onto the slightly convex side. Yeah, and that that helps 176 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: the batter spread and get those kind of lacy edges. Um. 177 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 1: The word crape, by the way, uh, relatedly comes from 178 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 1: an old French word for a for a for a 179 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: rough or a frill. All right, yeah, it makes sense, 180 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: makes sense. Uh. There's some Um, there's some tricks for 181 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: getting getting the lightness that you want out of out 182 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: of the final product include, um, including using a little 183 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: bit of sparkling water or even sparkling wine or beer 184 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: in your batter in place of some of the dairy 185 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: for the for the bubbles. Yeah. Oh interesting, okay, yeah. Um, 186 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: And I've read that they're often served with hard cider 187 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: in Brittany, um, which I understand is traditionally drink from 188 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,719 Speaker 1: these like shallow ceramic bowls. That's how I've had it 189 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: served anyway in craperies, so huh. I don't think I've 190 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 1: ever had it that way, but I think most of 191 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: my crepe experiences have been from carts or on Rude 192 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: de la crepe, which we don't know how authentic it was. Um, goodness. Uh. 193 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: And I did want to put in a note here that, Um, 194 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: there are all kinds of crape like flatbread type things 195 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: in all kinds of cultures around the world. Um, those 196 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: are not what we're talking about today. Hopefully we will 197 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: get too many more of them in the future, because 198 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: very frequently those are exactly what I want to eat. Yeah. Yeah, 199 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: it's always hard with ones like this where it's like 200 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 1: ten different other things are related or brought up in 201 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: the conversation often, and you know the history is yeah related. 202 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: So you can't have a twenty hour yeah, or I 203 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: mean I guess we could could. Nothing's stopping right, right, Yeah, 204 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: it's just hard to be like only this one because 205 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: the history. But also yeah, it deserves its own, the 206 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: whole thing. M hm, yes, Well what about the nutrition, Well, 207 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: it really depends. Um. I mean, I mean, a single 208 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: a single crape on its own, is you know, still 209 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: like made of like flower dough, which probably and like butter, 210 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: which like probably puts it in the treat category, and 211 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: probably most of the feelings that you put into it 212 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: push it further into the treat category. Yeah, but treats 213 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: are nice, they are nice. Crapes are very nice, They 214 00:14:53,280 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: are very extremely um. But we do have some numbers 215 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: for you, but they were hard, too hard to find. Yeah, um, okay, 216 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 1: so I have like one number for you. It's in 217 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: here somewhere. Stick with me for a second. Um creps 218 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: have historically been a special occasion food because they take 219 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: a little bit of doing um, and for a long time, 220 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: flower and some of the sweet stuff that you would 221 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: put in it were expensive. But in France there is 222 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: one holiday that they're perhaps most associated with, which is 223 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: uh luendelure. Yeah, and he's giving me the not of approval. Cool. Cool. 224 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: I'll go with thee Um, known in English as Candle 225 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: mess Um candle mass. I don't know, I'm I didn't 226 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: grow up with Christianity. Um. But it's also widely known 227 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: as the Day of the crepe Um. This occurs forty 228 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:56,479 Speaker 1: days after Christmas Eve aka February second, and apparently commemorates 229 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: the presentation of Jesus at the Temple in Jerusalem. And 230 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: there are all kinds of traditions and superstitions around cripes 231 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: on this day. But more more on that one later too. Yes, 232 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: I'm very excited about that. I actually had never heard 233 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: of this, and now I'm like, well, why have I 234 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: not been having grapes on February second? Directify this? There's 235 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: a day for it. Heck, yeah, I'm in exactly. And 236 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about that day and the 237 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: traditions around it in the history section. We will, but 238 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: first we're going to get into a quick break for 239 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: a word from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you sponsor, Yes, 240 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: thank you so pretty much every civilization has had some 241 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: form of flat cake. Yeah, a liquid batter cooked on 242 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: a flat heated surface, and many of them date back 243 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: to ancient times. Experts analyzed thirty thousand year old grains 244 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,719 Speaker 1: that suggests our ancestors were making something similar to this 245 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: article I was reading it in was a pancake, which 246 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,479 Speaker 1: I believe he discussed in our pancake episode, but they 247 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,479 Speaker 1: also mentioned crepes. Um, though the results of what they 248 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: were making was probably much closer to hardtack than what 249 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 1: we would think of as a pancake or crep today. 250 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: But sure, yeah, something more cracker like and not like 251 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: a nice fluffy cracker, like a like a sustenance cracker, 252 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: a sustenance cracker. But the you know beginnings, Yeah, the idea, 253 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: the idea is there, yes, and so specifically crapes. As always, 254 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: the histories of it murky um. But popular French folklore 255 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: goes that crepes were a so called happy accident in 256 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: the third teenth century, after a housewife in brittany Um 257 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:07,199 Speaker 1: in France accidentally tipped over some buckwheat porridge that was 258 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: cooking in a kettle onto a flat cooking stone in 259 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: the fire. While crapes Yeah, sure, I guess. I don't know. 260 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: I feel like if I had an accident like that, 261 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I would try to salvage it. 262 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think I wouldn't have succeeded. I guess, 263 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: But I it's a it's it's a nice bit of folklore. 264 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: It is a nice bit of folklore, and it is 265 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 1: very popularly told. Um. But yeah, looking into this, historians, 266 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 1: do you point out that in Brittany, buckwheat, the traditional 267 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: crepe ingredient, is successfully grown, where wheat is not so 268 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 1: successfully grown, and buckwheat had been introduced to Brittany from 269 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: the East in the twelfth century, So you know, maybe 270 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: that's a nice story, but perhaps the timing is correct. Um, yeah, 271 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: it's to reach. Yeah. However, some timelines do place crapes 272 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: earlier than that. For instance, uh, the crepe or the 273 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: Day of the Crapes is often traced to four hundred 274 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 1: and seventy two c after French Catholic pilgrims gifted crapes 275 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: to Pope Gelasio the First when paying Rome a visit 276 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: for candle Mass or Day of the Crapes or is 277 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: your cape whatever you would like to call it. Nowadays 278 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: in France and Belgium, the Day of the Crapes and 279 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: candle Mass are synonymous. Um, and crapes are part of it, 280 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: representing coins or the sun. Yeah. I've also read that 281 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: maybe it was that the there was a pope who 282 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 1: was gifting crapes to the pilgrims who were making this 283 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: pilgrimage when they got there. I'm not entirely sure um 284 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 1: at any rate. Yeah, Um, this festival and the food 285 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: also have ties to UM, to pagan pre spring festivals 286 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: for atility and prosperity. Um. See above read the coins 287 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,239 Speaker 1: and the sun kind of symbolism that you get from 288 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: the big round golden crepe. Um. So let's get into 289 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 1: some of these traditions though. Um. There are a few 290 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 1: around candles yeah, um, Like if you carry a candle 291 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: from home to church without it going out, then you 292 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: will definitely live through the year like your chill. Um. 293 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: But if it's wax only drips down one side during 294 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: the journey, a loved one will die that year. Oh no, no, 295 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: I know candle related anxiety. I already have candle related 296 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: to anxiety. I'm like, who gave me this live fire? That? 297 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: It was like Ursus Eve candle lighting ceremonies. I've been 298 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: scared of them for years. I'm so bad with lighters, 299 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: you guys anyway, Um, but okay, but about crepes again. 300 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: Ostensibly a food show. Um. You have your grep meal 301 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: in the evening that day, um, and you're supposed to 302 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: make your crips with last year's flower in anticipation of 303 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 1: the coming spring harvest. And this is hypothetically like part 304 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 1: of the point, like the practical part of it, um, 305 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: like using up extra stores to make way for fresh supplies. 306 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: But it's also yeah, like part of the superstition. Um. 307 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: You Also, I've read I keep the first crip you make, 308 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: like in a drawer or on top of your wardrobe 309 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: until next year for prosperity. How how do creeps keep? 310 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: I mean they would just dry out like a like 311 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: a cracker and just kind of hang out there. Okay. 312 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 1: All I've definitely like pulled a box of Mazza from 313 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: the back of my cupboard and been like, oh man, 314 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: I'm not sure which year I bought this. That's fine, 315 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: just fine, Okay. I also read you're meant to flip 316 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: the creepe with your right hand while holding a chord 317 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 1: and your love to ant to an sure you'll be 318 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: happy and wealthy in the coming year. Yeah, yeah, I 319 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: read that too, and I think that you part of 320 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 1: it is that you have to land the crape back 321 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: in the pan correctly for it to count. It feels 322 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: like a lot of pressure. I mean, we're already nervous 323 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: about making the crepes and candles, and now, oh, I 324 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: ran across really delightful photographs of like tiny children, like 325 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: like six year olds, like expertly flipping crips in a pan. 326 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:37,160 Speaker 1: So it must be easier than we feel could possibly 327 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: be true, or we are clumsier, oh than a six 328 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: year old. I I can neither confirm nor deny this statement, 329 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: just saying there are multiple ways to interpret this information. Yep, yep. 330 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: In either case, please write in and let us know, listeners, 331 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: if you have any of this stuff, if you've done 332 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: any of this stuff. We love this kind of thing, 333 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: so oh absolutely, and and I'm and I and I 334 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: really hope that we're not coming off as dismissive or 335 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: um or amused in like in like a mean way, 336 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: like we're we're amused in a delighted way, and just 337 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: we we are uncultured in this particular segment of culture, 338 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: and so yeah, yeah, if if if you, if you 339 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: know more than us, definitely let us know. Yeah, I 340 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: do all kinds of stuff like this. And I think 341 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: we've talked about a lot of the traditions we do 342 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: that happened very similar superstitions. It's legitimate fascination and love. 343 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: So yes, um so the French, but crepes with them 344 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: when they colonize parts of North America, and in many 345 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: of those areas, creeps are still a mainstay. And I 346 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: thought it was interesting because there were several articles I 347 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: found that were specific to um the middle west of 348 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:02,199 Speaker 1: the US, like north west United States, and it is 349 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 1: I guess Canadian French influence. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, 350 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: makes makes sense from you know, the borders of what 351 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 1: was Canada versus um uh what would become the United States, 352 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 1: because that was that was back in the hundreds, so 353 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: there was lots of time and where all the borders 354 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: were not existent to wobbly um uh. The word crypt 355 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 1: entered the English language first meaning the paper around um, 356 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: and only later like a whole century, almost later, around 357 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: eighteen seventy seven, meaning the flat pancake um. Although similar 358 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: dishes by similar names were appearing in English language cookbooks 359 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: from like the thirteen hundreds. So oh, that's interesting. Creepy 360 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 1: paper has been around that long. Yeah, nandor surely would 361 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: have run into it before that dollar store or wherever 362 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: it was that they were. Oh and or speaking of 363 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: France and perhaps the love of the French, Um, Thomas Jefferson, 364 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: that guy was a fan of something called pen kick. Um. 365 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: He had a recipe sent to his French maitre d'hotel. Um. 366 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: Though this recipe didn't have a leavener, so what he 367 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: was happening was probably more of what we would call 368 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: a crape huh. Yeah um. And this is true in 369 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: a lot of pancake histories that before leveners were pretty 370 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: widely available commercially made. Um, probably a lot of pancakes 371 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: we're flat Yeah, much more yes um. Perhaps the most 372 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: famous create presentation, crepe suzette, rose to fame in twentieth 373 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: century Paris, and these are traditionally prepared in front of 374 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 1: guests to dazzle them. Mm hmmm. Yes. According to Miriam Webster, 375 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: the name first appeared in print in nineteen But like 376 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: pretty much everything we talked about, there are a few 377 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: stories about how this one was first created. One of 378 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: the most popular goes that it was also a happy 379 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: accident precipitated by clumsy fourteen year old assistant waiter named 380 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: Henri Carpentier at the maid at Monte Carlos Cafe de 381 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: Peri in eight um, and a very happy accident, indeed, 382 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: because he was preparing a dessert for the then Prince 383 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 1: of Wales and future King Edward the seventh of England, 384 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 1: as goes, and so we do have some words from 385 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: the man himself. Yes, yes, yes, In his nineteen thirty 386 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: four memoir Life Allah Henri being the Memories of Henri 387 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,439 Speaker 1: Compentier Carpentier, It was quite by accident, as I worked 388 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: in front of a shafing dish that the cordials caught fire. 389 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: I thought I was ruined. The Prince and his friends 390 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: were waiting. How could I begin all over? I tasted it. 391 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: It was, I thought, the most delicious melody of sweet 392 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: flavors I had ever tasted. I still think so that 393 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: accident of the flame was precisely what was needed to 394 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: bring all those various instruments into one harmony of taste. 395 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: He ate the pancakes with a fork, but he used 396 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 1: a spoon to capture the remaining syrup. He asked me 397 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,439 Speaker 1: the name of that which he had eaten with so 398 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: much relish. I told him it was to be called 399 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: Crepes Princess. He recognized that the pancakes controlled the gender 400 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: and that this was a compliment designed for him, but 401 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: he protested with mock ferocity that there was a lady present. 402 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 1: She was alert and rose to her feet, and holding 403 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: her a little skirt wide with her hand, she made 404 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,199 Speaker 1: him a curtsy, will you said? His Majesty changed Crepes 405 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: Princess to Crepes Suzette. Thus was born and baptized. This confection, 406 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: one taste of which I really believe would reform a 407 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: cannibal into a civilized. The next day I received a 408 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 1: present from the Prince, a jeweled ring, a panama hat, 409 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: and a cane. Interesting. That is delightful. Um, And if 410 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: y'all have never heard of crepe cizette, um, it's a yeah, 411 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 1: it's it's got this. This kind of like caramelized sauce 412 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: of sugar and butter with some kind of citrus juice 413 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: and zest, usually orange, and then maybe a little bit 414 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: of orange liqueur in their um, flambaide table side. So yeah, yes, yes. Furthermore, Uh, 415 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: I mean other, I mean that cracks me up. That's 416 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: a beautiful recounting of an event. Um. But it also 417 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: if anyone else ever watched a lot ducktails as a 418 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: kid or modern ly, Cape Suzette still really gets me 419 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: every time. Well, I don't know what that is, but 420 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 1: I love it. Oh it's just the name of the 421 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: place they're they're in, Cape Suzette. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. 422 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: Oh um. Okay. So when white wheat flour became more 423 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: affordable and widely available in the twentieth century, so too 424 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: did white wheat crepes. Um. As the ingredients used to 425 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: cook crepes evolved, the cooking methods and tools did too, 426 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: from cast iron skillets over a fireplace to hot plates 427 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: heated by gas or later electricity. Uh. And I think 428 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: that the first portable gas stove hot plates meant for 429 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: crepes were released in from what's now the brand Cramples 430 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: k R A M P O U Z Yeah, which 431 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: means pancakes um uh in the Brittany dialect. Yeah. The 432 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: The invention apparently came after this electrician dude had his 433 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 1: sister in law be like, Hey, so I've got this 434 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: cast iron to make crepes on, but I don't have 435 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: a hearth in my new place, So can you can 436 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,239 Speaker 1: you come up with some kind of heating solution for 437 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: me to use this cast iron to make crepes And 438 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, sure, that's great. Yeah. UM. In 439 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties Nordic where who we talked about in 440 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: the bunt Cake and bunt Cake episode, UM began manufacturing 441 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: a crepe pan in the US. The product came with 442 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: several crepe recipes to help American cooks who might be 443 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: unfamiliar with French cooking. UM the first electric crepe maker 444 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: debut in nineteen seventy one, also from the aforementioned crem 445 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: blues UM. Notably, all of their products were aimed at professionals, 446 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: though up until the early nineteen eighties m Then in 447 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: the nineteen like late eighties early nineties, UM chains of 448 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: craperies began spreading around the United States, especially in these 449 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: UM fast service situations like mall and festival food courts. 450 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: Yes UM and in two thousand one, French trained Japanese 451 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: pastry chef Amy Water further purpolized crapes in the us 452 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: with her meal crepe Kike that she debuted at her 453 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 1: bakery in New York City. Um. Though the name translates 454 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 1: to a thousand layers or a thousand pages or a 455 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: thousand leaves, Um, it's actually about twenty layers of crape 456 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: um with pastry cream in between them. Oh, it's a 457 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: really lovely thing. Yeah. Um uh. And then in a 458 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: physicist and a fluid dynamicist teamed up to publish a 459 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 1: paper in the journal Physical Fluid Reviews about how to 460 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 1: get the perfect consistency out of your crapes at home 461 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: in a frying pan, like uniformly thick, no lumpster holes. Um. So, 462 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: so what they did was they analyzed how the liquid 463 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: batter spreads and solidifies in a hot pan, and then 464 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 1: how the remaining liquid batter then interacts with the already 465 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: solidified batter. Ah yeah yeah. And and basically, and this 466 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: is another thing that you can look up if you 467 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: would like to. Um uh. They concluded that you kind 468 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 1: of tip and roll your wrists to cover the surface 469 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: of the pan fully and then fill in any gaps 470 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: um and then kind of keep repeating that motion, sort 471 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: of like a like a figure eight almost. Um yeah, yeah, okay, 472 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: so it's like a tip and roll, tip and roll. 473 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: I know we've discussed it before, but this is one 474 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: of my very favorite things. Um, when you get a 475 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: physicist and stuid dynamicis, I know, I'll look into creeps. 476 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 1: Yeah right, so great. I think I think this was 477 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: another another one. I think that the fluid dynamicist like 478 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: his wife was like, I was like, why could I 479 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 1: never get crepes perfect at home? Like what's up with that? 480 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: And he was like ah, and she was like, you're 481 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 1: a fluid dynamicist, you heckan should know. And he was like, well, fine, 482 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 1: you've got me there, let me get to work. And 483 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: apparently the daughters of these two families were very pleased 484 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: about all the experimentation with crepes that occurred. I would 485 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: be as well. I would be as well. Absolutely, yes, well, 486 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 1: I think that's what we have to say about creeps 487 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: for now. Yes, um, we do have some listener mail 488 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 1: for you, but first we've got one more quick break 489 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: for a word from our sponsor. They were back thank 490 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:20,839 Speaker 1: you sponsoring, Yes, thank you, and we're back with no man. 491 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 1: I think that's pretty good. I guess only time will 492 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: tell only Yeah, that's right, that's right. We need to 493 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: start a rankings list of our best and worst. Oh 494 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:45,839 Speaker 1: oh no, hanging the bad ones you can learn. I 495 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: hope that. I hope that the cat noises in the 496 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: background are really setting it off. As I said to 497 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 1: Annie during our commercial break that we took during the 498 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: break there, Um, I just great. Cat is just tacking 499 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,399 Speaker 1: chaos cat today and I and I don't know why. 500 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: He's just he wants to be everywhere at once, and 501 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: he doesn't have a posable thumbs so he can't operate doors, 502 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:09,760 Speaker 1: and he's mad. Yeah, there's been a lot of motion 503 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 1: from the cat. Uh. But you know, sometimes we're all 504 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:24,320 Speaker 1: chaos cat. Yeah, No, you're right, words of wisdom. Yeah, 505 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 1: sometimes we are all chaos cat. Indeed. Anyway, anyway, Connie wrote, 506 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,759 Speaker 1: I'm in north Fort Myers, Florida, and we were looking 507 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: for a wing place closer to us than our favorite place, 508 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,600 Speaker 1: which is about ten miles away. I found one to 509 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 1: try called It's Just Wings. We ordered to take out, 510 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 1: and my husband went to get our order. When getting 511 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: to the address, there was a Chili's. After searching the 512 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: strip mall area not finding the wing place, he went 513 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,640 Speaker 1: into the chilies to ask and there was a sign 514 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: to a counter to pick up for it's just wings, 515 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 1: he asked, and they said it was just a sideline 516 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 1: for chilies. By the way, the wings were awful. Oh, 517 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: we'll continue to drive to our favorite wing place, hog Bodies, 518 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 1: a local place. Oh wow, oh wow, it's just wings 519 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 1: is such a funny name too. It's just wings, wings, 520 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: it's just the wings part of our venue. Yeah. Yeah, 521 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: too bad, too bad. I mean a lesson was learned. 522 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 1: Too bad. The wings are bad, bad wings. Always thinking, 523 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,200 Speaker 1: Oh sure, right, I mean they are a little bit 524 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 1: difficult to get like really good, but yeah, right, so good. Yes, yes, 525 00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: Kevin wrote, I've been a big fan of the pod 526 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 1: since day one. Oh thank you. You two are always 527 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 1: so awesome about letting your personalities shine through. It's like 528 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 1: having good friends in the car with me as I 529 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,760 Speaker 1: drive all over for work. Thanks for the company. You're welcome. Um. 530 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,120 Speaker 1: I had to pause the Scalop episode to write in, 531 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 1: so I'm not sure if it comes up later, but 532 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:19,680 Speaker 1: please Annie give another Listen to Lauren's description of the scalop. 533 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:26,040 Speaker 1: Many many eyes, tentacles, unknown, dark intentions. It's clearly a 534 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: c beholder. I adore the D and D sides that 535 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,399 Speaker 1: you two throw in. I am always down for more 536 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 1: of them, Lauren, this results in tragedy for the party. Sorry, 537 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:52,360 Speaker 1: they are environment jeez, I love unknown dark contentions given 538 00:37:52,400 --> 00:38:01,399 Speaker 1: that it's a nice descriptor. Uh yeah, yeah that's I 539 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,360 Speaker 1: thank you. I'm glad. I'm glad that this is this 540 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,440 Speaker 1: material is hitting for like literally anyone. We go on 541 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: these D and D tangents and I'm like, heck, did 542 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:14,719 Speaker 1: we just lose everybody? I think you got like four 543 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,279 Speaker 1: or five people that are really would do so so 544 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 1: I'm so so hey, thank you, I'm really I'm really glad, 545 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening. Um, but be oh man, Like, 546 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,160 Speaker 1: if there's any rule that I try so hard to follow, 547 00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 1: it's like, never give your d M ideas. I have 548 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:37,520 Speaker 1: the most excellent I cannot wait for an idea you 549 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 1: all gave me like in the second session and it's 550 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 1: not going to come into fruition until like the end, 551 00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: and I'm soized it's gonna be so bad. Yes, but 552 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,720 Speaker 1: you gave me an idea. You did the thing, Lauren. 553 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: I uh, well, hey, it's a it's a creative environment. Um. 554 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad that we're all uh suffering together under 555 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:14,440 Speaker 1: your unwielding thumb. That's right, you know, I'm so cruel. 556 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,719 Speaker 1: So now it's gonna be really good. I think it's 557 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:21,360 Speaker 1: gonna be hilarious. That's great. No, I'm super excited. And also, 558 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,440 Speaker 1: like you are not incorrect, like like, scalops definitely look 559 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: like sea beholders. Um if if y'all still have not 560 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,880 Speaker 1: uh looked up what scalops look like when they're alive, 561 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: do that? Yes, highly recommend really recommend um Wow. Thanks 562 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 1: to both of these listeners for writing. If you would 563 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,560 Speaker 1: like to write to us, you can. Our email is 564 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,840 Speaker 1: hello at saber pod dot com. 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