Description
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart loved to eat. His favourites included a variety of dishes to fuel his creativity. Join me, Steven Hobé, as we take a minute to get the scoop!
Fun Fact
With Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and numerous other composers hanging around, Vienna was clearly a musical center. Concurrently, it was an epicurean center that created and established the Viennese cuisine we still enjoy today.
About Steven
Steven is a Canadian composer living in Toronto. He creates a range of works, with an emphasis on the short-form genre—his muse being to offer the listener both the darker and more satiric shades of human existence. If you're interested, please check out his website for more.
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There are three things Mozart loved best: billiards, his pet starling, and food! Food was plentiful in Vienna during Mozart’s time. A cheap, common meal might have consisted of two large meat dishes with soup, vegetables, bread, and a quarter-litre of local wine. Sounds good to me!
As an adult, Mozart typically began his day with hot chocolate and white rolls for breakfast, and then a big pot of soup for lunch. This included a local Viennese specialty called “Kuttlflecksuppe,” which roughly translates to tripe soup. Hmmm.
Mozart also enjoyed Sturgeon, a Flemish beef and beer stew called “Carbonnade”. From his letters we learned that he frequently dined on braised pigeons with chestnuts and almond casseroles.
But his all-time favourite dish was liver dumplings with sauerkraut and occasionally pork cutlets.
On the flip side, it has been suggested that Mozart died from a parasitic worm found in raw pork, the disease being rampant in Vienna at the time. Was food his downfall? We will never know.