{"id":4355,"date":"2023-06-09T11:14:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2023\/06\/09\/potpourri-or-rotten-pot\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T09:14:52","slug":"potpourri-or-rotten-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2023\/06\/09\/potpourri-or-rotten-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri, or “Rotten Pot”"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”]Here we go: chicken with vegetable potpourri.<\/p>\n

Potpourri<\/em>, what a catchy name, innit?<\/p>\n

That’s right, I’m about to start a boring and pedantic post on the origin of this word…<\/p>\n

It was born in medieval Spain: olla potrida<\/em>, literally meaning “rotten pot”. Certainly not an attractive name for a food…<\/p>\n

However: olla potrida<\/em> was not the name of a recipe, rather a way of saying to indicate a skilful mix of meat and seasonal vegetables (or legumes), mixed and slowly cooked for hours.<\/p>\n

This causes the vegetables to fall apart and the meat to soften (due to the loosening of the connective tissue<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It was good, although it could seem to someone like it was about to go bad! Hence the reason why it’s called that!<\/p>\n

The olla potrida<\/em> had an immense fortune both in the countryside and in the banquets of the wealthiest, so much so that it was mentioned in two milestones of world literature: Cervantes’ Don Quixote<\/em> and Dumas Senior’s The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The term was later translated into French, but used to indicate not only the food, but also a mix of dried flowers and essential oils, collected in a terracotta or wooden bowl, used to perfume wardrobes or rooms.<\/p>\n

Today the term potpourri is used in several languages \u200b\u200bto indicate mainly the floral composition, but also a large and varied set of things (even as a synonim of medley<\/em>, as it comes to music).<\/p>\n

And it is used for food, just like it was done in Spain at the time of Knights, Moors, and windmills.<\/p>\n

In conclusion: whatever potpourri<\/em> you want to bring to the table, bear in mind I can provide the right equipment<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”]Here we go: chicken with vegetable potpourri. Potpourri, what a catchy name, innit? That’s right, I’m about to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}