How to Make an Omelette

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INTRODUCTION: 1. You wake up in the morning and before you can even think, you hear a loud rumbling emerge from your stomach. You’re starved of hunger from your long last meal that seems as if it were ages ago. What will you do to fulfill your appetites desire? You make a delicious mouthwatering omelet. 2. As a college student, breakfast is the most important meal of the day so why not start it off with a healthy flavorful beginning. 3. With each omelet I make, the possibilities keep growing with new and tasteful ideas. 4. Omelets are a quick and easy meal to make. 5. Don’t know how? Have no fear; shortly after I am done here, you’ll be waiting for class to be dismissed to whip up one of these fluffy masterpieces. We will discuss the history, formality of food handling and equipment, and finally how to cook the perfect omelet. Transition: First, let’s take a look where it all started. BODY I: “According to Alan David in the Oxford Companion to Food, The origins of the omelet can be traced to ancient Persia.” 1. Davis says, Most agree that the name omelet comes from the French word lamelle, which means, “thin strip.” 2. Davis also states, “Some argue, however, that “omelet” originates in the Latin ova mellita, which was a classic Roman beaten egg dish cooked on a clay dish.” 3. Marry Bellis says, “According to legend, when Napoleon and his army were traveling through the south of France they decided to rest for the night near the town of Bessieres. Napoleon feasted on an omelet prepared by a local innkeeper that was such a culinary delight that Napoleon ordered that townspeople to gather all the eggs in the village and to prepare a huge omelet for his army the next day.” 4. “On March 19, 1994, the largest omelet (1,3832ft) in the world was made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan.” Transition: Now lets talk about food handling and

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