Dinner with Vlad the Impaler - Pheasant with Cherry Sauce

Excellent research foi horrific history. Loved you added a drink to your pheasant. Hi Jose!

Could anyone recommend which cut of pork this sauce would probably go best with

This vegetarian has never drunk the blood of his enemies, so I’m giving Vlad the benefit of the doubt. Great episode, Max!

OooOOOOooO we need a compelation of all the "best things I've ever made."

Good video. In Hungary, as late as the 17th century, sása was still popular, which were sweet and sour sauces, like what you made, that were served with meats - probably as a dipping sauce. They were still thickened with bread the way you did it though the French had already changed to flour thickening. Also, a book I have has an aristocratic menu from 1603, in which they ate "tiny birds." I don't know what that means, exactly, but I did some light digging and it's likely that any birds they might have eaten are endangered now. I can't even imagine slaughtering small birds.

I tend to *really* like medieval and renaissance sauces. The cameline sauce from one of your episodes is fondly remembered by the friends I served it to. Is this sour cherry one even better?

Do they know for certain that the saliva and blood on the letters were Vlad's? Maybe he had a vegetarian servant whose aim was to attend to documents and posting.

Hi Max, I just came across an article that personal cooking was forbidden during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. That sounded crazy to me and very much on topic for this month of horror. The food looked very tasty, too. Just dropping it off here as a future video suggestion. Keep up the amazing work!

I'm intrigued by part of the sour cherry sauce recipe: “…add some black pepper; but don’t add clove, add cinnamon instead; cook it together…” Specifying *not* adding clove is kind of fascinating to me. Was it that much of a given, that you’d include clove in such a sauce?

no idea you were color blind. What is your spectrum of color procession? Can you see reds ? Blue or green ? How does the this lack of your cognition of color awareness color your cooking ? i am an evolutionary anthropologist and we can not understand how color blindness has endured to our present time.

Trying this recipe tonight with a viewing of Bram Stoker's Dracula. T'is the season! "Do not put your faith in such trinkets of deceit! We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England."

I think there is good evidence that a lot of the stories were propaganda by his enemies. Not denying he was a hardass, but the exaggerations were extreme.

The wine does look like fresh blood, Max.

So disappointed when I saw the notification my brain saw peasant with cherry sauce....