King Heinrich Thermidor von Krabbenburg VIII – Lobster Thermidor
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:King_Thermidor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_Thermidor
Thank you to Sophia D. for her help with this one. This is the second article about King Thermidor. The first details his connection to the English monarchy.
King of the Crabs of Crab Alley, King Heinrich Thermidor von Krabbenburg VIII became enamored with rock after a debacle involving another musical sensation. Shortly after returning from a world tour, Thermidor, accompanied by a contingent of royal guards, investigated a breach in Crab Alley’s river wall. Tricked out of his kingdom and trapped in the Deep Warrens by the Riverclaw Amadeo, Wizards must help the rightful king take back his rule from the impostor.
Lobster Thermidor is a French dish of lobster meat cooked in a rich wine sauce, stuffed into a lobster shell and browned. The sauce is often a mixture of egg yolks and brandy (such as Cognac), served with an oven-browned cheese crust, typically Gruyère. The sauce originally contained mustard, typically powdered.
In January 1891, the play Thermidor by Victorien Sardou opened in the Comédie-Française theatre. It told the story of a young French clerk, Charles-Hippolyte Labussière, an employee of Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety who saved over 1,200 lives during the Reign of Terror by destroying documents condemning them to the guillotine. Four of those saved were actors of the Comédie-Française, thus inspiring a dish reminiscent of a play about a hero. The recipe was possibly created at Café de Paris by Leopold Mourier. The restaurant was near the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin. According to that account, the recipe was given the same name as the play due to the play’s notoriety.
Lobster Thermidor was originally served like homard Américain, which was made with tomatoes, cayenne, and brandy, but with the addition of English mustard. An early London recipe for Homard à l’Américaine referred to à la Thermidor as a version with the addition of English mustard, while an early American recipe for lobster Thermidor left out the tomatoes, cayenne, and mustard and added cream sauce thickened with Béarnaise sauce and a sprinkling of grated cheese. It can be served with Newberg sauce but is differentiated from lobster Newberg by the addition of tomatoes.
The current list of all the Wizard City references can be found here.
King Thermidor image is from Wizard101, and is (c) KingsIsle Entertainment.
Lobster Thermidor image is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is copyright TheFoodPlace and is shared under the CC BY 2.0 Creative Commons license.
Images are being used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Vulcan Stev's Database 