When Is A Valentine NOT A Valentine?

When it is this totally real product – that has NOTHING to do with Valentine’s Day!

Time to look at some wacky food for Valentine’s Day, and one that is decidedly NOT!

Here’s a terrific story I found – all about a museum with this very unique product on display!

Here’s what I found:

“IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, A MUSEUM simply known as The Valentine tells the story of the city’s 400-year past. Set in a beautiful neoclassical building that dates to 1812, it was founded on the fortune one man made from his meat juice—which is exactly what it sounds like.”

The report continues:

“In 1870, Ann Valentine, the wife of the Valentine founder Mann S. Valentine, Jr., became very ill. Mann created a health drink that was a mixture of egg whites and meat juice (aka Valentine’s Meat Juice) that saved her life, brought him great wealth and ultimately provided him the funds for our original museum artifacts.”

What a story! Ann Valentine’s husband healed her illness, and the invention became a sensation: used for all kinds of stomach distress…and it had NOTHING to do with Valentine’s Day – it was just his last name!

Before you congratulate me on finding this unique Valentine’s Day story, you can thank the terrific staff here!

Gastro Obscura Rocks!

I have shared stories from this incredible book before – every page is filled with culinary discoveries like this one…as they tell the story about the Valentines:

“Before it became a museum, The Valentine was the home of dry goods merchant Mann S. Valentine II. In the fall of 1870, Valentine’s wife Anne Maria fell ill, apparently suffering from a “severe and protracted derangement of the organs of digestion,” as Valentine later wrote. Doctors had given up hope of curing her, and Valentine himself had been holed up in their basement for weeks.

But when Valentine emerged from the basement, he brought with him a potential cure that he’d cooked up. Knowing that Anne Maria couldn’t stomach solid food, but that she was in desperate need of nutrients, Valentine had concocted a tonic from beef juice and egg whites. The tonic was more effective than beef broth, he reasoned, because boiling meat for broth alters its proteins and leaves it “impaired in value.” By gently cooking the beef at a low temperature and then pressure-cooking it, he extracted juice from the meat that retained more of its nutritional value and “was acceptable to the most irritable stomach,” he wrote.

I love this story!

There is so much more to this story as well, but it’s not mine to tell…instead, race over to Gastro Obscura now to get the whole story – just click here!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/gastro

Now, if you want a more romantic idea for Valentine’s Day, why not strawberry-stuffed chocolate tacos?

I made these one year and they are delicious – pair them with baked eggs!

Click here for both recipes:

And not only is Gastro Obscura incredible, so is the companion book:

Atlas Obscura!

This is a guide to some of the most unique wonders of the world…clickhere to see an abandoned “Chicken church!”

I love to travel, and I love to eat, so I enjoy making all the dishes my wife loves, like this one:

Valentine’s Day looms. Why not show some love this way?

Here’s a recipe for Italian Wedding Soup:

I mentioned that I’ve shared stories from Gastro Obscura before – like these “threads of God!”

Click here for the story of a unique product made by only a handful of people in the entire world!

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