Brown Windsor soup the soup being documented in restaurant menus during the interwar years, some more recent web sources incorrectly claim there are no references to "Brown Windsor soup" prior to a joke mention, or invention, in the 1953 Ealing Studios film comedy "The Captain's Paradise". Another associates it with "Calves' Feet Soup à la Windsor", created for the "post-natal Queen Victoria" by Charles Elmé Francatelli, her chef. Etymologist Michael Quinion incorrectly reports the earliest known reference is from 1943, in "The Fancy", by Monica Dickens. As to the name, a few early White Windsor soup recipes included the use of Windsor fava
Food Poker Food Poker Food Poker is a BBC tea-time television programme which fuses traditional culinary skills with poker. It is presented by Matt Allwright and voiced over by Jeni Barnett, each episode features four chefs. It was first broadcast on BBC Two between 29 October and 7 December 2007. The show involves chefs being dealt two food cards and can use up to three ingredients from five more 'shared ingredient' cards. The chefs then decide in secret what dish they will prepare and then choose either to 'pitch' their idea or 'fold', if they don't believe they can cook anything with