Cooking The First Menu On Mount Everest

Cooking The First Menu On Mount Everest | Food History

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Did you know that when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, they did so on a ration diet of sardines, tinned fruit, jam, lemonade powder, mint cakes, and lashings of sweet tea?
Join me this week on culinary journey in food history to the top of the world by tasting the menu eaten by the first explorers to reach the top of Mount Everest.
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Everest Rations
01:35 - Kendal Mint Cake
03:16 - Powdered Milk Porridge
04:22 - Sweet Tea
05:23 - Powdered Lemonade
05:57 - Sardines
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@Electroceratops 2 ай бұрын

Never knew anything about Tenzing and Hilary's rations before, so this was fascinating :-) thank you!

@unicornstew 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@KC-gy5xw 2 ай бұрын

Interesting as usual! My parents moved here from Jamaica just as rationing ended; I tend to forget it went on for so long after the war finished.

@unicornstew 2 ай бұрын

I think most people do. But it left so many legacies. I remember reading reports about kids who hated eating real eggs because they’d been brought up with powdered egg!

@user-or7fs1hc8j 2 ай бұрын

Thank You for this!!. Sardines on biscuits or bread rusks or toast are common in most if not all Mediterranean cultures during the hot Summer months when cooking is just too much work. Greeks & Italians brought this to NYC when they immigrated here; I kind of thought everyone ate this way. My parents loved sardines on toast I wasn't a fan, but when I got into my 20's I really appreciated them very much especially when you dress them with evoo and lemon juice and fresh garlic and a sprig of fresh oregano. Really tasty. Cheers from NYC!!!

@unicornstew 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this! I’m in Greece right now as it happens, and have eaten half my body weight in sardines since I got here. I’d forgotten how glorious they are. Thanks for watching!

@dogsbody49 22 күн бұрын

I often have sardines on toast for breakfast.

@koolaidman324 2 ай бұрын

Good video…keep making them!

@unicornstew 2 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@jamesfry8983 2 ай бұрын

Oh man mint cake, you might like the brown sugar version not as sweet and a little less minty, then on the other extreme you can get chocolate covered mint cake because some folk just cant get enough sugar, mint cake is a must if your doing extreme hiking, on mountain's or hills, I also take jerky or biltong with me sugar and protein that what your body really needs when your doing that kind of thing.

@unicornstew 2 ай бұрын

Interesting about the brown sugar version! I have one leftover and tempted to take it next time I go on a plane to see if altitude changes it - even at a leisurely altitude unlike some deserved hiking indulgence 😊

@jamesfry8983 2 ай бұрын

@@unicornstew It may not taste as sweet but the menthol would be about the same, still I would be interested to hear your results, so far the highest mountain ive been up with mint cake was Scafell Pike (3,209) in the Lake District, but a plane is different air pressure then you also have the dry air too.

@unicornstew 2 ай бұрын

The biggest I’ve ever attempted is snowdon, and I was too busy panting to think about testing my palette