ヤンソンの誘惑の謎
スエーデン料理で有名なヤンソンの誘惑。
ジャガイモとアンチョビーのグラタンで
スエーデン語でJanssons frestelseだが、
動物性タンパク質を断っていた牧師さまが、
あまりにおいしそうな香りの誘惑に負けて食べてしまったという
逸話がある。
が、これは、スエーデンではだれも知らない。
英語では、Jansson's temptationといい、
イリノイ州のビショップヒルという町に
誘惑の伝説が残っている。
結構、劇的なお話です。
詳しくは、桜沢琢海の料理の誕生をお読みください。
参照記事 By CRAIG CLAIBORNE
Jansson's Temptation was not created in Sweden at all, but in this country, Craig Claiborne found. The splendid dish, which is not unlike a casserole, is made with potatoes that have been cut into julienne strips and blended with anchovy fillets or sprats, plus cream and onions.
As the story goes, it was named after a 19th-century Swedish religious leader, Erik Janson, who brought his followers from Sweden to America and founded a community called Bishop Hill in Illinois. Janson preached staunchly against the pleasures of the flesh and appetite but had a weakness - a particular potato-and-anchovy dish. He was discovered devouring the dish so ravenously that it ruined his reputation. Claiborne said the story is probably apocryphal (even the spelling of the name is different).
