Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 274 - The One Where Shea Takes Us To The Zoo!
In This Week’s Show, episode 274, we cook up a banquet of delightfully realish treats to tempt even the most discerning crypto-palet.
Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while The Chiefs haven't struck us down yet, we are trying their patience!
Shea’s Life Lesson
This week I learned that Vikings covered their roofs in grass so enemy aircraft bombers couldn’t see them.
Jenn’s Actual Lesson
Jenn didn’t want to drink this week's beer.
But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!
This Week’s Beer
Even More Jesus from Evil Twin Brewing Stratford, CT
Donated By: Steve E.
* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24300/81067/
* BA Rating: 4.31
* Style: Imperial Stout
* ABV: 12%
* Aaron: 1
* Shea: 1
* Steve: 1
This Week’s Show
Patreon Story
Fantastic Beasts and How To Eat Them
* https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2012/04/unicorn-cookbook-found-at-the-british-library.html
* http://www.universalleonardo.org/work.php?id=438
* National Geographic London Book of Lists. https://books.google.com/books/about/National_Geographic_London_Book_of_Lists.html?id=-z-OAwAAQBAJ. Accessed 1 Feb. 2020.
“Taketh one unicorne” is how this begins. Because we’re roasting mothafuckn unicorns y’all!
Being a bit of a foodie I thought that, before Shea treats us all with a beastly quiz, I’d wet our appetites with one of best yee-olde recipes I could find; Roast Unicorn!
Unfortunately, Jenn isn’t here to restore herself with unicorn blood, but hey, we’ll try to save her some left-overs.
From the British Library’s Medieval Manuscripts Blog, comes a tail as old as the kitchen. Kind of… at least that’s what I’m going with. Professor Brian Trump - hereafter referred to as Brian for obvious reasons - of the British Medieval Cookbook Project described the find as near-miraculous. "We've been hunting for this book for years. The moment I first set my eyes on it was spine-tingling."
Like all great cookbooks Geoffrey Fule’s book features the best of illustrations. Check out your phone for a diagram that’s supposed to show a unicorn being cooked, but, more accurately, depicts a unicorn getting his nails done on a bed made of sausages.
Detail of a unicorn on the grill in Geoffrey Fule's cookbook, England, mid-14th century (London, British Library, MS Additional 142012, f. 137r).
Experts like Brian or Tim Jepson & Larry Proges who wrote National Geographic’s London Book of Lists: The City’s Best, Worst, Oldest, Greatest, and Quirkiest, believe that the cookbook was compiled by Geoffrey Fule, who worked in the kitchens of Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England (1328-1369). He was known for mixing odd flavors and as such one British scholar called him “the Heston Blumenthal of his day” - for those of us who don’t speak the Queen’s English, that’s kind of like calling him Gordon Ramsey or Emeril Lagassie.
Anyway, back to the unicorn roast.
First, one must catch a unicorn. A difficult task without the help of he who shall not be named. Luckily for us Leonardo Da Vinci took a break from leaving esoteric clues for Tom Hanks to find and accompanied his Young woman seated in a landscape with unicorn, late 1470’s pen and ink, with instructions on their acquisition.
First, because unicorns are, apparently, symbols of sacred and profane chastity, you’ll need a hot virginal maiden. Next, ditch her in a field to spend her day being a Disney princess until a unicorn appears, “the unicorn…because of its intemperance, not knowing how to control itself before the delight it feels towards maidens,
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In This Week’s Show, episode 274, we cook up a banquet of delightfully realish treats to tempt even the most discerning crypto-palet.
Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while The Chiefs haven't struck us down yet, we are trying their patience!
Shea’s Life Lesson
This week I learned that Vikings covered their roofs in grass so enemy aircraft bombers couldn’t see them.
Jenn’s Actual Lesson
Jenn didn’t want to drink this week's beer.
But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!
This Week’s Beer
Even More Jesus from Evil Twin Brewing Stratford, CT
Donated By: Steve E.
* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24300/81067/
* BA Rating: 4.31
* Style: Imperial Stout
* ABV: 12%
* Aaron: 1
* Shea: 1
* Steve: 1
This Week’s Show
Patreon Story
Fantastic Beasts and How To Eat Them
* https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2012/04/unicorn-cookbook-found-at-the-british-library.html
* http://www.universalleonardo.org/work.php?id=438
* National Geographic London Book of Lists. https://books.google.com/books/about/National_Geographic_London_Book_of_Lists.html?id=-z-OAwAAQBAJ. Accessed 1 Feb. 2020.
“Taketh one unicorne” is how this begins. Because we’re roasting mothafuckn unicorns y’all!
Being a bit of a foodie I thought that, before Shea treats us all with a beastly quiz, I’d wet our appetites with one of best yee-olde recipes I could find; Roast Unicorn!
Unfortunately, Jenn isn’t here to restore herself with unicorn blood, but hey, we’ll try to save her some left-overs.
From the British Library’s Medieval Manuscripts Blog, comes a tail as old as the kitchen. Kind of… at least that’s what I’m going with. Professor Brian Trump - hereafter referred to as Brian for obvious reasons - of the British Medieval Cookbook Project described the find as near-miraculous. "We've been hunting for this book for years. The moment I first set my eyes on it was spine-tingling."
Like all great cookbooks Geoffrey Fule’s book features the best of illustrations. Check out your phone for a diagram that’s supposed to show a unicorn being cooked, but, more accurately, depicts a unicorn getting his nails done on a bed made of sausages.
Detail of a unicorn on the grill in Geoffrey Fule's cookbook, England, mid-14th century (London, British Library, MS Additional 142012, f. 137r).
Experts like Brian or Tim Jepson & Larry Proges who wrote National Geographic’s London Book of Lists: The City’s Best, Worst, Oldest, Greatest, and Quirkiest, believe that the cookbook was compiled by Geoffrey Fule, who worked in the kitchens of Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England (1328-1369). He was known for mixing odd flavors and as such one British scholar called him “the Heston Blumenthal of his day” - for those of us who don’t speak the Queen’s English, that’s kind of like calling him Gordon Ramsey or Emeril Lagassie.
Anyway, back to the unicorn roast.
First, one must catch a unicorn. A difficult task without the help of he who shall not be named. Luckily for us Leonardo Da Vinci took a break from leaving esoteric clues for Tom Hanks to find and accompanied his Young woman seated in a landscape with unicorn, late 1470’s pen and ink, with instructions on their acquisition.
First, because unicorns are, apparently, symbols of sacred and profane chastity, you’ll need a hot virginal maiden. Next, ditch her in a field to spend her day being a Disney princess until a unicorn appears, “the unicorn…because of its intemperance, not knowing how to control itself before the delight it feels towards maidens,