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04-20-2011, 10:10pm | #1 | ||||||
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Marie's Bath.........
Ok, who the hell was Marie and what was she doing taking a bath in the kitchen?
You know, the chick that the pan (bain-marie pan/technique) is named after...... I looked all over and could not find who the pan was named after......anyone know? |
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I don't know why but I first thought that it was used to make fish stock. Then I saw that Marie could not sit in it.
The name comes from the medieval-Latin term balneum (or balineum) Mariae—literally, Mary's bath—from which the French bain de Marie, or bain-marie, is derived. There are many theories as to how the name Marie came to be associated with this equipment: According to culinary writer Giuliano Bugialli, the term comes from the Italian bagno maria, named after Maria de'Cleofa, who developed the technique in Florence in the sixteenth century.[2] Alternatively, the device's invention has been popularly attributed to Mary the Jewess, an ancient alchemist traditionally supposed to have been Miriam, a sister of Moses.[1] However, according to The Jewish Alchemists,[3] Maria the Jewess was an ancient alchemist who lived in Alexandria, which would seem to contradict the tradition that she was Moses' sister: Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC, while Moses is thought to have lived around 1450-1200 BC.[4] Finally, some consider the name a reference to the Virgin Mary, whose proverbial gentleness can be likened to the gentleness of this cooking technique.[1 |
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