The Kaiserschmarrn – failed pancake or dessert innovation? Who actually had the idea of mixing beetroot with cured meat and herring? The bizarre origin stories behind dishes that became global successes.
At the end of the 19th century, humanity was going downhill. They overexploited the body: they caroused, quartzed, and whored. This was a thorn in the side of the doctor John Harvey Kellogg. In the Battle Creek Sanatorium – which was already controversial at the time – he wanted to detoxify people, put a stop to licentiousness and also take action against masturbation. He tinkered and experimented, but in the end it was chance that made an invention possible that would change breakfast culture worldwide. We’ll reveal what it’s all about in the photo series. There we also tell many other bizarre, sometimes adventurous stories about the origins of dishes, without which the world would no longer be conceivable today.