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Nutrition and Food Engineering / The Griffin ( A Fairy Tale )

« on: July 13, 2016, 04:00:26 PM »

The Griffin.

Once upon a time there was a king. The king's daughter was ill, and it was foretold she would be made well by eating an apple. The king declared that whoever brought the apple to cure her would marry her. A peasant with three sons sent the oldest, Uele, with a basket of apples. He met a little iron man who asked him what was in the basket and said "Frogs' legs." The man said that so it was, and when he reached the king, it did contain frogs' legs. The king drove him out. The peasant sent his second son, Seame, who answered "Hogs' bristles", made the same discovery and received the same reception.

The youngest son, Hans, who was rather a fool, begged to go too, until his father let him. When he met the iron man, he said the basket contained the apples which the princess would eat to make herself well. The iron man said that it was so. The basket held apples when he reached the castle, and the princess was cured.

The king, however, refused to let them marry until he had a boat that traveled over dry land and sea. Hans went home and told his father. His father sent Uele to the forest to make such a ship; the iron man came to him and asked what he was making; when Uele said "Wooden bowls" that was what he made. Seame suffered the same fate, but when Hans told the iron man he was making a ship that would travel over land and sea, he made such a boat.

The king set Hans to watch a hundred hares in a meadow all day. Hans did so, not losing any. The king sent a maid to beg one from him, for guests. Hans refused it, but said he would give one to the king's daughter. Then the iron man gave him a whistle that would summon any hare back. Hans gave the king's daughter a hare but then whistled it back.

The king sent Hans to fetch him a feather from the griffin's tail. On the way, a lord of a castle asked him to ask the griffin where was the lost key to his money chest; another lord, how their ill daughter could be cured; a giant, why he had to carry people over a lake. At the griffin's castle, he met the griffin's wife, who warned him that the griffin would eat him, but at night, he could pull out a feather, and then she would get the answers for him.

Hans did as she said, and when he pulled the feather, the griffin woke. The wife told him that a man had been there and gone away, but told her some stories first. She repeated them, and the griffin said that the key was in the wood house, under a log; that a toad had made a nest of the daughter's hair, but she would recover if they took the hair out; that the giant had only to put someone down in the middle of the lake and he would be free. Hans left and told the other lords what he had learned; they gave him rich treasures. When he reached the king, he claimed the griffin had given them. The king set out to get some, but he was the first man to reach the giant, who put him down in the lake, where he drowned. Hans married the princess and became king.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / The Princess and The Pea (A Fairy Tale)

« on: July 11, 2016, 05:06:53 PM »

The Princess and The Pea

Now, there are many stories about princesses, and many people who think they know what it means to be a princess. This story
is a reminder that things are not always what they seem.
 
Once upon a time there was a powerful Queen who was used to getting what she wanted. She accepted nothing less than the  best, and she also wanted nothing but the best for her son. She only clothed him in the finest suits, only fed him gourmet foods,  and hired the smartest teachers in all the land to educate him.
 
So when it was time for him to be married, she told him:
 
"Son, you deserve the best woman in the whole world. Do not
settle for just any pretty face. A prince must be married to a
princess." she told him, as he listened intently.
 
"But remember," said the Queen, "A real princess is not just the
daughter of a king and queen. A real princess is delicate and refined, and eats only the finest foods. She is well-educated, and reads only the greatest books and poems. She wears the loveliest dresses, and carries herself with grace and dignity. And the first
thing you will notice, a real princess has the voice of an angel."
 
With that, the prince set off with his servants in search of his  princess.
 
After he had traveled for several days, he reached the nearest  kingdom. When he came to the castle, he introduced himself as
the prince of the neighboring kingdom.  When he met the king and queen, they were immediately impressed by how handsome and polite he was. They thought right away that it would be a good idea to introduce the prince to their daughter, a princess who was not yet married.
 
They brought the prince to the princess's study, where she was busy reading poetry as a servant fixed her hair. The Prince was
happy to see that she was very beautiful, and she smiled at the  Prince as he greeted her.
 
"Hello, Princess," said the Prince.
 
"Hello!" squawked the Princess, her voice hoarse and cracking.
 
"Um, are you all right, princess?" asked the Prince. "Can I bring
you a glass of water?" "No, I am not thirsty," replied the Princess, smiling politely.
 
"Well, it was lovely to meet you," said the Prince nervously. "I
must be going, it is very late."
 
As he left, he felt badly for leaving abruptly, but he reminded himself of what his mother said: "A real princess has the voice
of an angel."
 
The good part was that it was actually not late at all. The Prince had plenty of time to set out for the next neighboring kingdom,
where he again found the castle and asked to meet the king and queen.
 
Again, he was so charming that he was immediately invited to meet the unmarried princess of the kingdom. This time, the king
and queen led the Prince to castle's dining hall. This princess was also very beautiful but when the Prince entered, she hardly looked at him. She was sitting at the table eating like a pig with food dripping from her face and hands.
 
"Um, hello Princess," said the Prince, speaking hurriedly, "it
looks like you are very busy, so, I'll just leave you alone with  your food."

He continued on, through valleys and over endless stretches of  plains, but at each castle he stopped at, he met only
disappointment. Finally, the Prince gave up and returned home - still unmarried and very disappointed by his very long journey.
 
When he arrived at his own castle, his mother and father greeted him. The Prince told his parents the whole story of his journey.
His mother was especially sad for him, but also glad he had not chosen to marry any of the princesses he met.
 
That night, during a terrible thunderstorm, there was a knock at the door. A servant went to go answer the door, and a young
woman stood outside, dressed in a heavy cloak, soaking wet  from the rain.
 
The Prince happened to be walking past, but when he heard the voice of the young woman he stopped in his tracks.
 
She explained to the servant, "My driver got lost in the rain and we saw the light from your castle. Would you be kind enough to
provide us shelter for the night?" She had the voice of an angel, and the Prince knew immediately that this must be his princess. He quickly ran up and excused the servant.
 
"Of course you are welcome to stay, good lady," he said, bowing respectfully. "Allow me to take your coat."
 
When she pulled the hood off of her head, the Prince thought that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life.
 
"Thank you so much, kind sir."
 
The Prince was so excited, he ran to go tell his mother what had happened. But right after he told her the story, she scoffed.
 
"My dear son, she is no princess," she said. "What kind of a
princess goes out in the rain, knocking on doors in the middle of
the night? Shouldn't she have a servant for that?"
 
She peeked out into the hall to get a look at the girl, and was appalled to see her with dripping wet hair and a muddy dress.
 
"You see? She is no more than a common peasant."
 
"But mother," argued the Prince. "Look at how she walks! I've
never seen anything more graceful."
 
The Queen could see that her son had already fallen for the girl, so she quickly devised a plan to get rid of her.
 
"Alright, then, if you don't believe me, we will put her to a test. Tonight we will dress her bed with ten of the softest, fluffiest,
most luxurious feather mattresses in the castle. Then under the ten mattresses, we will place a single, uncooked pea. If this pea
disturbs her sleep, then we will know. Only a real princess would be delicate and refined enough to feel the pea."
 
The Prince didn't think that anybody would be able to feel the pea, but he also knew that his mother knew best. Besides, he
thought, he didn't want to marry anything less than a real princess.
 
So the Queen ordered her servants to gather the best mattresses they could find, and bring them to the guest tower. The she took
a single pea, and put it right in the middle of the bed, and had the servants stack all the mattresses on top.
 
Then the Prince escorted the guest to her room, where she needed a ladder to get to bed. In the morning, the Prince went to the dining hall, and peeked inside to get a look at his love. She looked terrible. She had dark circles under her eyes and was sipping a large cup of tea.
 
"I am so tired," the princess told a servant. "Please do not tell the Prince, but that bed is awful, I felt like there was a brick inside
it. I did not sleep a wink all night. I am so tired." The Prince rushed over to her side and knelt before her.
 
"You are a true princess, aren't you? Please marry me and live here and I will get you any mattress you choose."
 
The Princess looked shocked but then smiled and said, "Yes, I will marry you, as long as I don't have to sleep on that bed ever again!"
 
The next day, after the Princess got a good night's sleep without a pea to disturb her, the Prince and Princess were married.
 
And they lived happily ever after. 

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / How the Devil Married Three Sisters..!!! ( A Fairy Tale)

« on: July 11, 2016, 04:21:47 PM »

How the Devil Married Three Sisters..!!!


Once upon a time the devil was seized with a desire to marry. He therefore left hell, took the form of a handsome young man, and built a fine large house. When it was completed and furnished in the most fashionable style he introduced himself to a family where there were three pretty daughters, and paid his addresses to the eldest of them. The handsome man pleased the maiden, her parents were glad to see a daughter so well provided for, and it was not long before the wedding was celebrated.

When he had taken his bride home, he presented her with a very tastefully arranged bouquet, led her through all the rooms of the house, and finally to a closed door. "The whole house is at your disposal," said he, "only I must request one thing of you; that is, that you do not on any account open this door."

Of course the young wife promised faithfully; but equally, of course, she could scarcely wait for the moment to come when she might break her promise. When the devil had left the house the next morning, under pretence of going hunting, she ran hastily to the forbidden door, opened it, and saw a terrible abyss full of fire that shot up towards her, and singed the flowers on her bosom. When her husband came home and asked her whether she had kept her promise, she unhesitatingly said "Yes." But he saw by the flowers that she was telling a lie, and said, "Now I will not put your curiosity to the test any longer. Come with me. I will show you myself what is behind the door." Thereupon he led her to the door, opened it, gave her such a push that she fell down into hell, and shut the door again.

A few months after he wooed the next sister for his wife, and won her; but with her everything that had happened with the first wife was exactly repeated.

Finally he courted the third sister. She was a prudent maiden, and said to herself, "He has certainly murdered my two sisters; but then it is a splendid match for me, so I will try and see whether I cannot be more fortunate than they." And accordingly she consented. After the wedding the bridegroom gave her a beautiful bouquet, but forbade her, also, to open the door which he pointed out.

Not a whit less curious than her sisters, she, too, opened the forbidden door when the devil had gone hunting, but she had previously put her flowers in water. Then she saw behind the door the fatal abyss and her sisters therein. "Ah!" she exclaimed, "poor creature that I am; I thought I had married an ordinary man, and instead of that he is the devil! How can I get away from him?" She carefully pulled her two sisters out of hell and hid them. When the devil came home he immediately looked at the bouquet, which she again wore on her bosom, and when he found the flowers so fresh he asked no questions; but reassured as to his secret, he now, for the first time, really loved her.

After a few days she asked him if he would carry three chests for her to her parents' house, without putting them down or resting on the way. "But," she added, "you must keep your word, for I shall be watching you."

The devil promised to do exactly as she wished. So the next morning she put one of her sisters in a chest, and laid it on her husband's shoulders. The devil, who is very strong, but also very lazy and unaccustomed to work, soon got tired of carrying the heavy chest, and wanted to rest before he was out of the street on which he lived; but his wife called out to him, "Don't put it down; I see you!"

The devil went reluctantly on with the chest until he had turned the corner, and then said to himself, "She cannot see me here; I will rest a little."

But scarcely had he begun to put the chest down when the sister inside cried out, "Don't put it down; I see you still!" Cursing, he dragged the chest on into another street, and was going to lay it down on a doorstep, but he again heard the voice, "Don't lay it down, you rascal; I see you still!"

"What kind of eyes must my wife have," he thought, "to see around corners as well as straight ahead, and through walls as if they were made of glass!" and thus thinking he arrived, all in a perspiration and quite tired out, at the house of his mother-in-law, to whom he hastily delivered the chest, and then hurried home to strengthen himself with a good breakfast.

The same thing was repeated the next day with the second chest. On the third day she herself was to be taken home in the chest. She therefore prepared a figure which she dressed in her own clothes, and placed on the balcony, under the pretext of being able to watch him better; slipped quickly into the chest, and had the maid put it on the devil's back. "The deuce!" said he; "this chest is a great deal heavier than the others; and today, when she is sitting on the balcony, I shall have so much the less chance to rest." So by dint of the greatest exertions he carried it, without stopping, to his mother-in-law, and then hastened home to breakfast, scolding, and with his back almost broken.

But quite contrary to custom, his wife did not come out to meet him, and there was no breakfast ready. "Margerita, where are you?" he cried, but received no answer. As he was running through the corridors, he at length looked out of a window and saw the figure on the balcony. "Margerita, have you gone to sleep? Come down. I am as tired as a dog, and as hungry as a wolf." But there was no reply. "If you do not come down instantly I will go up and bring you down," he cried, angrily; but Margerita did not stir. Enraged, he hastened up to the balcony, and gave her such a box on the ear that her head flew off, and he saw that the head was nothing but a milliner's form, and the body, a bundle of rags. Raging, he rushed down and rummaged through the whole house, but in vain; he found only his wife's empty jewel box. "Ha!" he cried; "she has been stolen from me and her jewels, too!" and he immediately ran to inform her parents of the misfortune. But when he came near the house, to his great surprise he saw on the balcony above the door all three sisters, his wives, who were looking down on him with scornful laughter.

Three wives at once terrified the devil so much that he took his flight with all possible speed...!!!

However, it remains unclear whether the devil wants to marry again.. 

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Rapunzel (A Fairy Tale)

« on: July 11, 2016, 01:09:24 PM »

Rapunzel

Once upon a time there was a man and a woman who had long, but to no avail, wished for a child. Finally the woman came to believe that the good Lord would fulfill her wish. Through the small rear window of these people's house they could see into a splendid garden that was filled with the most beautiful flowers and herbs. The garden was surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared enter, because it belonged to a sorceress who possessed great power and was feared by everyone.
One day the woman was standing at this window, and she saw a bed planted with the most beautiful rapunzel. It looked so fresh and green that she longed for some. It was her greatest desire to eat some of the rapunzel. This desire increased with every day, and not knowing how to get any, she became miserably ill.
Her husband was frightened, and asked her, "What ails you, dear wife?"
"Oh," she answered, " if I do not get some rapunzel from the garden behind our house, I shall die."
The man, who loved her dearly, thought, "Before you let your wife die, you must get her some of the rapunzel, whatever the cost."
So just as it was getting dark he climbed over the high wall into the sorceress's garden, hastily dug up a handful of rapunzel, and took it to his wife. She immediately made a salad from it, which she devoured eagerly. It tasted so very good to her that by the next day her desire for more had grown threefold. If she were to have any peace, the man would have to climb into the garden once again. Thus he set forth once again just as it was getting dark. But no sooner than he had climbed over the wall than, to his horror, he saw the sorceress standing there before him.
"How can you dare," she asked with an angry look, "to climb into my garden and like a thief to steal my rapunzel? You will pay for this."
"Oh," he answered, "Let mercy overrule justice. I cam to do this out of necessity. My wife saw your rapunzel from our window, and such a longing came over her, that she would die, if she did not get some to eat."
The sorceress's anger abated somewhat, and she said, "If things are as you say, I will allow you to take as much rapunzel as you want. But under one condition: You must give me the child that your wife will bring to the world. It will do well, and I will take care of it like a mother."
In his fear the man agreed to everything.
When the woman gave birth, the sorceress appeared, named the little girl Rapunzel, and took her away. Rapunzel became the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was twelve years old, the fairy locked her in a tower that stood in a forest and that had neither a door nor a stairway, but only a tiny little window at the very top.
When the sorceress wanted to enter, she stood below and called out:
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.
Rapunzel had splendid long hair, as fine as spun gold. When she heard the sorceress's voice, she untied her braids, wound them around a window hook, let her hair fall twenty yards to the ground, and the sorceress climbed up it.
A few years later it happened that a king's son was riding through the forest. As he approached the tower he heard a song so beautiful that he stopped to listen. It was Rapunzel, who was passing the time by singing with her sweet voice. The prince wanted to climb up to her, and looked for a door in the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the song had so touched his heart that he returned to the forest every day and listened to it. One time, as he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw the sorceress approach, and heard her say:
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair.
Then Rapunzel let down her strands of hair, and the sorceress climbed up them to her.
"If that is the ladder into the tower, then sometime I will try my luck."
And the next day, just as it was beginning to get dark, he went to the tower and called out:
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair. The hair fell down, and the prince climbed up.
At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man such as she had never seen before came in to her. However, the prince began talking to her in a very friendly manner, telling her that his heart had been so touched by her singing that he could have no peace until he had seen her in person. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him as her husband, she thought, "He would rather have me than would old Frau Gothel." She said yes and placed her hand into his. She said, "I would go with you gladly, but I do not know how to get down. Every time that you come, bring a strand of silk, from which I will weave a ladder. When it is finished I will climb down, and you can take me away on your horse. They arranged that he would come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day.
The sorceress did not notice what was happening until one day Rapunzel said to her, "Frau Gothel, tell me why it is that you are more difficult to pull up than is the young prince, who will be arriving any moment now?"
"You godless child," cried the sorceress. "What am I hearing from you? I thought I had removed you from the whole world, but you have deceived me nonetheless." In her anger she grabbed Rapunzel's beautiful hair, wrapped it a few times around her left hand, grasped a pair of scissors with her right hand, and snip snap, cut it off. And she was so unmerciful that she took Rapunzel into a wilderness where she suffered greatly.
On the evening of the same day that she sent Rapunzel away, the fairy tied the cut-off hair to the hook at the top of the tower, and when the prince called out:
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair.
she let down the hair.
The prince climbed up, but above, instead of his beloved Rapunzel, he found the sorceress, who peered at him with poisonous and evil looks.
"Aha!" she cried scornfully. "You have come for your Mistress Darling, but that beautiful bird is no longer sitting in her nest, nor is she singing any more. The cat got her, and will scratch your eyes out as well. You have lost Rapunzel. You will never see her again."
The prince was overcome with grief, and in his despair he threw himself from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell poked out his eyes. Blind, he wandered about in the forest, eating nothing but grass and roots, and doing nothing but weeping and wailing over the loss of his beloved wife. Thus he wandered about miserably for some years, finally happening into the wilderness where Rapunzel lived miserably with the twins that she had given birth to.
He heard a voice and thought it was familiar. He advanced toward it, and as he approached, Rapunzel recognized him, and crying, threw her arms around his neck. Two of her tears fell into his eyes, and they became clear once again, and he could see as well as before. He led her into his kingdom, where he was received with joy, and for a long time they lived happily and satisfied.