Playboy At The Chafing Dish

Playboy at the Chafing Dishplayboy's food & drink editorThe word "chafing" comes from the old French chaufer meaning to make warm, to excite or inflame.From the earliest Roman times amateur and professional gourmets have understood this principle when performing at the chafing dish. Seneca, the Roman Stoic who lived in the first century A.D., talked about the "chafing dish that pleases the pampered palate." Centuries later Marie Antoinette ordered an elaborate chafing dish ma...