Monkey Gland Steak Sauce - Monkey Ass Hot
Braaitime is proud to present the best Monkey Gland sauce this side of the Limpopo...or Mississippi for that matter.  All Natural.  Secret South African recipe. Pick any of the 4 delicious flavours.African Hot, Monkey Ass Hot, Original, and Dessert Garlic.Nice size 16oz bottle.WHAT IS THIS STUFF?Well first and foremost, it has nothing to do with Monkeys or their Glands...that's just a catchy name.  Checking the ingredients tells you it is a masterful blend of all natural peach, chilli, mango, mustard, cilantro, and other spices.  The story of it's origin and the weird name that stuck goes something like this:The secret history of monkeygland sauce:Eric Bolsmann.  Sunday TimesWhen I first researched the origin of Monkey Gland Steak in the '60s, nobody could tell me why it was named after the glands of a primate.Even experienced chefs shrugged their shoulders.During the '70s I met Cavaliere Fiorino Luigi Bagatta, the man who introduced Monkey Gland Steak to South Africa.He said that it was at the Savoy Hotel in London that the Monkey Gland Steak was born.It all happened when the Russian-born French scientist, Dr Abrahamovitch Serge Voronoff (1866-1951), caused a sensation by grafting monkey testicle tissue onto the testicles of men, believing that this was an effective treatment to induce rejuvenation.The first such transplant, in 1920, appeared to be so successful that Voronoff could not cope with the demand from men hoping to regain their virility.Voronoff was hailed by 700 of the world's leading surgeons at an International Congress in London - for his revolutionary discovery of how to reverse the ageing process.Voronoff regularly visited the Savoy Hotel in London, and his medical experiments led to the naming of a new sauce, by the Italian maitre d'.Bagatta became one of the waiters at the Savoy and learned the recipe there.He told me he had brought the Monkey Gland Sauce recipe to South Africa in 1935 to the Carlton Hotel.