Nikola Tesla's menu

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Every man has his own menu. At first, in childhood, it consists of dairy and some meat products, vegetables, fruits and cereals, while in the period of growing up and adulthood, the choice becomes different, the list of dishes that are consumed changes and expands. The menu, of course, depends on climatic conditions, religious beliefs, as well as the social milieu in which one person lives and works. Today, food is not just a basic energy need, it is enjoyed and sometimes experimented with. Foods and spices from other climates are added, or incompatible components are combined in search of new flavors.

When Nikola Tesla passed away, on January 7, 1943, in the New Yorker Hotel, an unopened bottle of milk and a covered plate with apple slices were found in the refrigerator. If this seems too dietary to someone and is associated with a person who was not interested in food, it should be said that the famous scientist was actually a gourmand, which can be seen from his menu. Boston duck, artichoke hollandes, beefsteak in various ways, avocado soup, au gratin cauliflower, lamb chop, strawberries with vanilla cream, marinated mussels, omelette with truffles, are just some of Tesla's favorite specialties, along with Lika pihtuje, Lika choror vegetables or cicvara. He drank alcohol only in moderation ("brandy was often good in my life"), and he even exaggerated his favorite coffee drink in such a way that, according to his own confession, it adversely affected his heart. Eventually he was forced to give up coffee and for ten years he ordered it every morning enjoying only its scent.

We learn all this from the book "Nikola Tesla's Menu in 60 Stories" by Predrag Puzić (publisher "Tesla's Scientific Foundation Serbia"), in which we get to know the gastronomic side of a scientist who, after the traditional native diet in Lika, had the opportunity to try different cuisines - German, Czech, Hungarian, French and finally American.

Viewed from a culinary point of view, the scientist's biography is more than interesting, because it is often filled with unusual anecdotal events. It is known that during his stay in America, Tesla lived exclusively in hotels and that this is his way of life. Especially after a not at all pleasant experience when he was forced to do hard physical work, he ate sparingly and slept on the floors of inconspicuous inns. At the height of his fame, he often invited numerous guests to lunch or dinner, not only friends, but also those from business, scientific, artistic, journalistic or other social circles. He organized lavish banquets as part of one of his successfully started or completed works. He himself selected and created a list of dishes and drinks, supervised their preparation and gave suggestions to the staff. Later, as Tesla's financial power declined, the number of his receptions decreased. Especially when he had to move to cheaper and not so luxurious hotels because of the debts. He also fell into awkward situations, when his guests would be discreetly refused to serve until he settled the previous bills.

When he became famous and rich in the USA, he regularly went to the renowned New York restaurant "Delmonico's", which was then a cult gathering place for rich and business people, as well as artists, athletes, actors, and where, along with the usual steaks and steaks, on the menu were unusual dishes, lobsters and desserts. Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Pulitzer, John Astor, Antonin Dvorak were seen in his company.

The book "Nikola Tesla's Menu in 60 Stories" was conceived and created as a documentary-narrative form. Real moments from Tesla's biography intertwine with our narrative shaping. We used relevant sources and literature, primarily what he wrote about himself in scientific terms. autobiography, diaries, lectures and articles.The secondary part consists of records of people who had the opportunity to have lunch with him, as well as menus and menus of the restaurant where the guest was seen.The third part is journalism that still continues to be printed today.

WHAT DID NIKOLA TESLA EAT? This is the MENU of the famous scientist + RECIPE

Here are some interesting facts from the life of the famous scientist Nikola Tesla that he wrote in his autobiography (the book "My Inventions: Autobiography of Nikola Tesla"), but also his daily menu which was published in the old scientific journal "Electrical Experimenter", for Tesla himself wrote several articles.

Nikola Tesla's menu in these writings looks very simple. For breakfast, he usually drank warm milk and ate eggs that he would prepare himself, for lunch he mostly did not eat anything, and he ate celery stalks, soup, chicken and potatoes with a glass of light wine, and a piece of cheese or an apple for lunch.

Recipe for celery soup

Ingredients:

1 onion

olive oil

5 stalks (leaves) of celery

spoon of primrose

2 cloves garlic

so, pepper

Preparation:

Finely chop the garlic, then simmer it in olive oil over a low heat until it gets a golden color. Peel a stalk of celery, chop it and put it in 1.5 liters of water.

Cook the celery, then add the sauteed onions. When the celery is cooked, after about 20 minutes, add the primrose. Cook for another 5 minutes, then strain, but save the soup in which you cooked celery.

Put the ingredients from the soup in a blender and add two cloves of garlic. Simmer until you get a uniform creamy mass. Add 1 cup of soup in which you cooked celery, salt, pepper to the cream soup, and mix.

Tesla's menu consisted mainly of vegetables, he took care to eat one egg white and one egg yolk a day in order to live as long as possible. He also liked good wines, but gave them up when the prohibition came.

Fresh mussels with shrimp chips and lemon foam, clear duck soup with aged sherry jelly or asparagus in Dutch sauce with Parmesan snow, are just some of the dishes from the famous scientist's menu.

In his later years, he became a vegetarian. He explained his secret of a long life with vegetarianism, walks in the fresh air and giving up coffee. But in his vegetarianism, there was room for milk, which he classified as the most useful food. Hence the bottle of milk in his refrigerator that was found when he died.

It is no coincidence that Tesla revives the menu in the hotel on Studentski trg. During his only stay in Belgrade in 1892, Tesla stayed right there, in the then luxury hotel "Imperial", on today's plateau.

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I have still love and take that food what i like before in my childhood.Not too much changes in my taste.

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I have still love and take that food what i like before in my childhood.Not too much changes in my taste.

and I love the food my mom prepared.

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Awwn, I love this great article you've written

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Awwn, I love this great article you've written

I am so glad you are reading my stories.

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4 years ago

persons of the photos are really historic

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persons of the photos are really historic To adore old photographs. Past and history.

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4 years ago

I really love to take that photo this is really amazing photos and article nice job

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I really love to take that photo this is really amazing photos and article nice job

The photos tell about the American hotel where Niko Tesla stayed.

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Nikola Tesla is a scientist with a creative genius who shaped the present world with his inventions. Frankly, Nikola Tesla has an important place in my life with his ideas, thoughts and achievements besides Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Budha, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, whom I consider valuable in my life.

It's an interesting and beautiful article and I liked it very much.

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Nikola Tesla is a scientist with a creative genius who shaped the present world with his inventions. Frankly, Nikola Tesla has an important place in my life with his ideas, thoughts and achievements besides Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Budha, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, whom I consider valuable in my life.

It's an interesting and beautiful article and I liked it very much.

I am glad that you like the article. I agree with you in the choice, but especially in addition to Nikola Tesla, I appreciate Mahatma Gandhi.

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4 years ago

I remember when I was in the Nikola Tesla Museum, I read somewhere that "gurabije" are his favorite cale

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Nikola Tesla was a special man in every sense of the word. He dedicated his entire life exclusively for the benefit of humanity. He liked to eat very healthy foods such as cauliflower and beets. He ate only twice a day. Strictly at 6 pm in the morning and in the evening. He also liked to drink a glass of good wine. Imagine, he avoided coffee because he thought that it was not a good nerve stimulant and that it disturbed the organism and made a person incapable of being productive during the day. What is interesting about his private life is that he burned fat calories and expelled toxins by walking a lot, avoiding means of transportation and using leg work.

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Nikola Tesla was a special man in every sense of the word. He dedicated his entire life exclusively for the benefit of humanity. He liked to eat very healthy foods such as cauliflower and beets. He ate only twice a day. Strictly at 6 pm in the morning and in the evening. He also liked to drink a glass of good wine. Imagine, he avoided coffee because he thought that it was not a good nerve stimulant and that it disturbed the organism and made a person incapable of being productive during the day. What is interesting about his private life is that he burned fat calories and expelled toxins by walking a lot, avoiding means of transportation and using leg work.

It is interesting to me that he did not eat egg yolks.

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Nice article

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He was another genius in the world with higher knowledge. His dream can be fulfilled by another future scientists

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He was another genius in the world with higher knowledge. His dream can be fulfilled by another future scientists

What kind of genius is that?

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This is a really great article about Nikola Tesla, I love articles like this.

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This is a really great article about Nikola Tesla, I love articles like this.

Thanks enjoy

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Evening as a scientist he had a very interesting appetite

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Evening as a scientist he had a very interesting appetite

Yes very interesting

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Celery soup is one of my favourite too and I have tried to different twist for it to make and I will try that method too

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Very impressive I like it

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As for food, I think she would give up her meat that we use without any problems, but I don't know how coffee and tea would work. Probably would, but it seems impossible to me right now. This article is very great for you. I didn't know that he was staying in a hotel in Belgrade, and I wrote so much about him. Greeting

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As for food, I think she would give up her meat that we use without any problems, but I don't know how coffee and tea would work. Probably would, but it seems impossible to me right now. This article is very great for you. I didn't know that he was staying in a hotel in Belgrade, and I wrote so much about him. Greeting

This is an article because of you, so you can have his menu for lunch in Belgrade.

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I will make sure that when I am in Belgrade I go to that lunch with his menu :) Thank you very much

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The soup that you have left the recipe for seems very tasty. I like celery a lot and I am eating it very often. It seems to me that Nikola Tesla was taking care of all parts of his life. And, that is great example for all of us.

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Yes, I love celery too!

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Haha, that's a very interesting recipe! I would love it myself! But didn't think he will make that himself. He's quite surprising Nikola Tesla! Celery soup is very healthy and the egg as well. I love two eat a boiled egg every day.

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Haha, that's a very interesting recipe! I would love it myself! But didn't think he will make that himself. He's quite surprising Nikola Tesla! Celery soup is very healthy and the egg as well. I love two eat a boiled egg every day.

Yes he had a very interesting menu and lavish and later modest.

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Nikola Tesla was a great scientist and his food was specific, in the end he became a vegetarian and thus explains his long life. Wonderful story, thank you.

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Nikola Tesla was a great scientist and his food was specific, in the end he became a vegetarian and thus explains his long life. Wonderful story, thank you.

Yes, but he couldn't give up milk.

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Interesting side of a greater mind. I would say his meals seems kind of frugal. Very pleasant to find some other curios aspects of Tesla, so much has been said about him and yet one always find new info.

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Interesting side of a greater mind. I would say his meals seems kind of frugal. Very pleasant to find some other curios aspects of Tesla, so much has been said about him and yet one always find new info.

In his later years, he was frugal in food. As a young man, he ate well in American restaurants. Even exotic.

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Great article

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I would like to read a book about Tesla's menu. I guess he has a lot of ideas about preparing healthy food.

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I would like to read a book about Tesla's menu. I guess he has a lot of ideas about preparing healthy food.

Yes it is interesting.

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This is just like the movie. Very inspirational thank you

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Thank you very much.

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Interesante información, aparte de Nikola Tesla como individuo conocido, ya me enteré de la comida que comía

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Interesante información, aparte de Nikola Tesla como individuo conocido, ya me enteré de la comida que comía

Yes very interesting.

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Interesting information.

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Very good written

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Thank you very much.

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Welcome

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Thank you so much for given the recipe

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You really went as far as writing an article about Tesla's menu, I see you have a connection between science and food.😀😀

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You really went as far as writing an article about Tesla's menu, I see you have a connection between science and food.😀😀

Yes, I have always been attracted to the life of our scientist.

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4 years ago

Very informative and amazing article. Thanks for sharing dear.

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Very informative and amazing article. Thanks for sharing dear.

Thank you for reading too.

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Most welcome dear😊

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If we follow his menu can we develop our brain? Is their any possibility? I know brain's development is depends on how much you using your brain.

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f we follow his menu can we develop our brain? Is their any possibility? I know brain's development is depends on how much you using your brain.

I don't believe it. Interestingly, he didn't like egg yolks. He ate 4 egg whites.

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4 years ago

Good article with amazing information. Amazed to know it

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Thank you for reading my article as well. I will try to justify the trust.

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Good article with amazing information. Amazed to know it

Hvala vam što ste pročitali i moj članak.Trudiću se da opravdam poverenje.

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4 years ago

Sounds like quite delicious.. I want to try this soup. Nicola tesla was a great scientist . Nice information dear

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Sounds like quite delicious.. I want to try this soup. Nicola tesla was a great scientist . Nice information dear

Celery soup is very healthy.

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4 years ago

Wow very interesting article. Thanks for sharing this article..... Keep it up...

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প্রত্যেকের একটা নিজস্ব মেনু আছে এবং ওই মেনু অনুসরণ করে

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Very interesting how he ate simplistically. It sounds like a very Steve Jobs type of thing to do and he had apples in his refrigerator. Coincidence? I think not!

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Very interesting how he ate simplistically. It sounds like a very Steve Jobs type of thing to do and he had apples in his refrigerator. Coincidence? I think not!

I don't know if it's a coincidence. Steve Jobs is a tycoon; Nikola Tesla is a scientist. An apple is the healthiest fruit.

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Very good Writing Dear

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Thank you friend!

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Very interesting article and useful. Thank you

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Thank you Denis!

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4 years ago

Great article, I will give you like.

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Thank you Jasmin!

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Interesting information, Aside from Nikola Tesla as well-known individual,I already learned the food he ate

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Interesting information, Aside from Nikola Tesla as well-known individual,I already learned the food he ate

Thanks a lot, definitely celery and apple soup.

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