Le cassoulet à New-York

Dans l'encyclopédie wikipédia version anglaise, dont vous voyez un extrait reproduit plus bas, vous avez la possibilité en tapant "cassoulet" dans la zone de recherche, de lire qu'une banderole avec l'inscription "cassoulet", fut déployée le 4 novembre 2008, à l'annonce des résultats des élections américaines à Time Square.

Canal + est à l'origine de cette blague. En effet, l'émission "le Petit Journal" avait envoyé des journalistes à New-York et, pour se faire remarquer par la télévision ABC, avait déployée une banderole où il y avait inscrit "Cassoulet" et "For Ever".

Cassoulet

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Typical Cassoulet

Cassoulet (from Occitan caçolet [kasuˈlet]) is a rich, slow-cooked bean stew or casserole originating in the southwest of France, containing meat (typically pork sausages, pork,goose, duck and sometimes mutton), pork skin (couennes) and white haricot beans.

The dish is named after the cassole, the distinctive deep round earthenware pot with slanting sides in which cassoulet is ideally cooked.

Numerous regional variations exist, the best-known being from Castelnaudary, the self-proclaimed "Capital of Cassoulet", Toulouse, and Carcassonne. All are made with white beans (haricots blancs, lingots), duck or goose confit, meat and sausages. In the cassoulet of Toulouse, the meats are pork and mutton, the latter frequently a cold roast shoulder. The Carcassonne version is similar but doubles the portion of mutton and sometimes replaces the duck with partridge. The cassoulet of Castelnaudary uses a roast duck instead of mutton and serves it in a special dish.

Cassoulet is also sold in Russia as a commercial product in cans and can be found in supermarkets and grocery stores across the country. These cassoulets vary in price and quality. The cheapest ones contain only beans, tomato sauce, sausages, and bacon — duck and goose are expensive and thus are absent from such preparations. More expensive versions are likely to be cooked with goose fat and to include Toulouse sausages, lamb, goose, or duck confit. In portions of Eastern Europe, the dish is traditionally made to eat an old, useful farm animal that has been put down (milk cow, horse). The slow cooking tenderizes the meat and it is a sign of respect for the service of the animal to eat it in this fashion.

Haute cuisine versions require mixing pre-cooked roasted meats with beans that have been simmered separately with aromatic vegetables, but this runs counter to cassoulet's peasant origins. In the process of preparing the dish it is traditional to deglaze the pot from the previous cassoulet in order to give a base for the next one. This has led to stories of a single original cassoulet being extended for years or even decades.

Many culinary traditions have similar techniques for slow cooking beans in a covered vessel. Examples include Feijoada, Fabada Asturiana, and baked beans. The Hungarian-Jewish solet and Eastern Europeansolent are similar bean dishes, and are also frequently cooked in combination with smoked poultry, especially goose leg, but a definitive relationship has not been established.

Cassoulet enjoyed a burst of unexpected fame in the United States on election night, November 4, 2008, when a large "Cassoulet" banner was repeatedly held aloft from a crowd gathered outside ABC News' Times Square studios in New York. This banner was a joke made by a french-show ("Le Petit Journal") that was broadcasting from New-York just for the election.