Why do some restaurants wrap their meals in fine gold paper, like Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribéry, who showed a video of a steak wrapped in gold leaf? Some argue that the history of gold with food has roots dating back to the Middle Ages!
The controversy in Germany continues over the video posted by Bayern Munich player Franck Ribery, 35, on his social media accounts, in which he appears to be eating steak wrapped in gold leaf. While some considered it a kind of extravagance and waste, especially since the price of the golden paper that wrapped the steak that the French player ate amounted to 1200 euros, according to the newspaper “Bild”, others considered it a personal freedom, especially since it is a long tradition in Europe.
There are not only gold leaf but there are other metal papers that are used in cooking, drinks, or decorating certain items with silver leaf, for example. As for drinks, gold leaf was used about 1600 years ago for alcoholic beverages from mixing egg yolks with spices.
What Ribery did at a Turkish restaurant in Dubai drew the ire of many; it was preceded by the nobility in the Middle Ages. According to the website of the Swiss news newspaper Neue Zurich Zeitung, the nobles and nobles of Europe decorated their tables with sheets of precious metals to show their social status.
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