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Good Eats: Squash Court II
Home gardeners, some looking for fresh food and others to save money, have begun planting a wider variety of vegetables, including the grower-friendy squash. Not much for flavor by itself, with the proper accessories and the right technique, squash can certainly be Good Eats. From a Zucchini Ribbon Salad opener to a Crookneck Squash Frittata or Overstuffed Pattypan Squash, this versatile vegetable can do it all. And when there's more squash for current needs, a few quick steps can prepare Frozen Summer Squash for availability any time.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 14x11 Production Number: EA1411H Airdate: Thursday November 04th, 2010 |
Recap
Alton recalls a time in his childhood, watching Green Acres. He was on Eva Gabor's side: Times Square, nice shopping and restaurants. Not for him slopping the pigs or tending plants. But now, gardening has taken on new importance to many. This season Alton elected to plant a half dozen or so of the hundreds of forms of his favorite summer vegetable: squash. And he has succeeded...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Card: Zucchini is the diminutive of zucca or “gourd”.
Card: Squash, as we know it, was introduced to Europe by Columbus at the end of the 15th century.
Card: Georgia and Florida are the leading producers of summer squash in the US.
Card: The traditional Italian frittata was an important meal during the observation of Lent.
Card: Pattypan squash are also known as scallop, custard or cymling squash.
Episode Title: Squash is also a game played by two players using rackets and a rubber ball, on a court. The title could also refer to court in the sense of a king and his gentry, where the king often made royal pronouncements. In this scenario Alton would be the king and his culinary instruction the pronouncements.
Episode Quotes
Alton: Nowadays they call gardening “domestic terraforming”. It's got kind of a nice post-survivalist sound to it.
Small British Boy: (Emerging from a giant squash) Oh, 'ello. Have you seen my aunts about? One's thin and tall and the other's quite fat! Both rather nasty, I'm afraid.
Alton: Uh, sorry, kid, no. I haven't seen your aunts around.
Small British Boy: Excellent! (He disappears back inside the giant squash.)
Alton: Uh, sorry, kid, no. I haven't seen your aunts around.
Small British Boy: Excellent! (He disappears back inside the giant squash.)
Alton: When the season really hits the best thing that you can do is arm yourself with a wide range of anticipatory applications that can be implemented at a moment's notice.
Alton: (about his mandoline) It has a very economical and very sharp ceramic blade. Never needs sharpening. It's easy to clean, and because it's at this angle, it's great for slicing softer items like...
Safety Officer Sam: Hands!
Alton: Excuse me... (walks to the kitchen island) Just as I suspected. It's our safety officer, Sam!
Safety Officer Sam: S. O. S. for short!
Safety Officer Sam: Hands!
Alton: Excuse me... (walks to the kitchen island) Just as I suspected. It's our safety officer, Sam!
Safety Officer Sam: S. O. S. for short!
(About Sam's arm brace.)
Alton: Did you make this?
Safety Officer Sam: YES! Nobody will insure me any more...
Alton: Did you make this?
Safety Officer Sam: YES! Nobody will insure me any more...
Safety Officer Sam: (holding a food holder that has retractable spikes in his palm) Go ahead and give that a shot.
Alton: That's going to go into your...
Safety Officer Sam: Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... just give it a shot.
(Alton slaps the top of the food holder, drawing a pained wince from Sam)
Safety Officer Sam: Perfectly fine, just illustrating a point! (He turns his palm over, revealing that the food holder is now tacked to his hand.)
Alton: I think you illustrated several points.
Alton: That's going to go into your...
Safety Officer Sam: Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... just give it a shot.
(Alton slaps the top of the food holder, drawing a pained wince from Sam)
Safety Officer Sam: Perfectly fine, just illustrating a point! (He turns his palm over, revealing that the food holder is now tacked to his hand.)
Alton: I think you illustrated several points.
Alton: (about the three sisters, corn, squash and beans) Native Americans learned to grow them together not only because they represent a complete protein when served together, but because they form a perfect agricultural community.
Cultural References
The young British boy who emerges from Alton's oversized squash, and who has two unpleasant aunts, is a take-off on Roald Dahl's story, James and the Giant Peach. Like the boy, James had two mean aunts, one extremely thin and the other quite fat, from whom he sought escape.
Alton's particular intonation when pronouncing the words wafer thin as a description of how he cuts his onion calls to mind the waiter from the Monty Python film The Meaning of Life. One scene featured the morbidly fat Mr. Creosote, and what happened when a waiter persuaded the overstuffed diner to accept just one after dinner mint. Despite the fact that the candy was “wafer thin”, it proved too much for poor Mr. Creosote, with horrifying results.
Alton mentions pasta having put Sophia Loren on the map. Sophia Loren is an Italian film star with an enormous collection of films to her credit.
It is possible that the ill-starred character Safety Officer Sam is an homage or parody of an early Jim Carrey character, Fire Marshall Bill, who appeared on the television series, In Living Color, created by the Wayans brothers. Both characters seem suspiciously prone to the very hazards they warn others to avoid.
When he mentions the three sisters, three women with Russian accents appear. These are the three sisters from the same-named play, written in 1900 by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
When Alton comments that he did not mean Chekhov's “Three Sisters” a yellow-shirted man appears, claiming that they have “found the nuclear wessels, Keptain.” Alton gravely thanks him so he can leave; this man is Pavel Chekov, first seen in a 1967 episode of Star Trek entitled “Amok Time”. The line about “nuclear wessels” refers to a now famous (well, inside fandom) quote uttered by the character in Star Trek: The Voyage Home. Actor Walter Koenig played the character in both appearances.
Episode References
The second episode in a "series within a series" covering the subject of squash. The first Squash Court aired during season 5.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Alton Brown |
| • Executive Producer | DeAnna Brown |
| • Music | Patrick Belden |
| • Camera Operator | Ramon Engle |
| • Director of Photography | Marion Laney |
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