SC - Marzipan vegetables - L'Escalade

[Suzanne Berry]

Suzanne Berry at PRIMAVERA
03/30/98 03:01 PM
I know this is modern, but can you give us more details on these
marzipan vegetables? Do these look like the real thing or just
cariactures? Are they often homemade or are they usually bought
at the store?

   They very much resemble the real thing, only the largest are maybe
   6 cm long; they are also colored to look like the real thing.

What is this * anniversary of L'Escalade*?

   One of the biggest local historical festivals of the old city of
   Geneva, then more like a city-state.  The actual event happened
   just out of period, Dec 11, 1602.  The Duke of Savoy launched a
   nighttime attack against the walled city of Geneva, having his
   soldiers put long ladders against the walls (L'Escalade translates
   as "the scaling").  Tradition says that the first person to detect
   the attack was a woman making soup in her kitchen, which was (par
   for Geneva at that time) above the ground story of the house.  She
   pulled her three-legged cast-iron pot (her *marmite*) full of
   boiling soup off the fire and threw it down on the soldiers's
   heads.  This helped to rouse the city, and they drove the soldiers
   out.  I really don't remember this as being a tourist festival at
   all......

   -  Aislinn




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