Antonio Robinson
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Author of The Things We Need, Private Admission, & From The Death Chamber - A Man Of Letters
Martin Shkreli says believing Big Pharma hides cures is a “below 60 IQ take” “If you actually know anything about making medicine, you don’t half-make a medicine. You either make it or you don’t. The idea that companies would hold back a real cure makes no sense, because the first one to solve it wins everything”
Napoleon Bonaparte conquered most of Europe, rewrote the legal code of France, and fundamentally changed the modern world. What you probably didn't know was that he ate dinner in under 20 minutes, often with his fingers, and wiped his hands on his uniform. We know this not from legend but from the written accounts of the men who watched him eat every day. His second valet Louis Etienne Saint-Denis, who was at Napoleon's side from his time in power through his exile at Saint Helena, recorded in precise detail that the Emperor consumed most meals in scarcely more than fifteen to twenty minutes and consistently suffered from indigestion as a result. He preferred his soup scalding hot. He ate standing up at a small pedestal table rather than seated at the elaborate dining rooms his court prepared for him. He used his fingers for fish and salad. When he found a bone in his fish he called it a thorn and had his plate removed immediately. His valet from 1814 to 1821, Louis-Joseph Marchand, noted that he loved green beans but refused to eat them because he was terrified of finding a thread in them that might feel like hair in his mouth, which is perhaps the most relatable thing any emperor has ever said. Napoleon had eleven different head chefs in ten years. His court would spend hours preparing elaborate state banquets, and Napoleon would arrive late, eat at speed while conducting business, and leave before anyone else had finished their first course. His contemporaries Talleyrand and Cambacérès, the great French statesmen of the period, were both celebrated gourmands who hosted legendary dinners. They reportedly found Napoleon's indifference to food genuinely baffling, and Napoleon's response, characteristically, was that he considered time spent eating a waste. The one dish that broke through his indifference was Chicken Marengo, the improvised battlefield recipe his cook Dunand threw together after the Battle of Marengo in 1800 from whatever could be foraged, chicken, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, and whatever crayfish happened to be nearby. The story goes that Napoleon ate it so quickly and with such apparent enthusiasm that he demanded it after every subsequent battle. When Dunand later tried to improve the recipe by removing the crayfish, Napoleon sent it back. © Eats History #archaeohistories
BREAKING: Aliens are real and human contact has taken place, according to Tim Burchett.
