History of Shrimp Cocktail

Series Summary

Shrimp must be one of the best choices of seafood to be found and shrimp cocktail is one of the best ways of preparing shrimp. Shrimp cocktail is a delicious, albeit expensive, appetizer and a popular main course many times. How to can you enjoy shrimp cocktail and still enjoy not being broke? Well, you can start by cooking your own shrimp cocktail. Learning how to cook shrimp cocktail is not as difficult as you think, in fact it's easy! All you need is some expert cooking advice and you'll be ready to make shrimp cocktail in minutes!

In this free cooking video series, learn how to make shrimp cocktail from restaurant owner Richard Buccola. Richard will teach you all about preparing, cooking, and serving shrimp cocktail. He will tell you what ingredients you will need to make shrimp cocktail and he will demonstrate how to buy shrimp, how to de-vein and de-shell shrimp, how to wash shrimp, how to season water to boil shrimp, how to cook shrimp for shrimp cocktail, and how to chill shrimp cocktail. Additionally our expert will teach you numerous ways of serving shrimp cocktail.

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Richard Buccola here in New York City and on behalf of Expert Village, today I am going to show you how to make Shrimp Cocktail. So today we are going to make Shrimp Cocktail. I'm in New York City and I'll tell you folks I can walk down the block and get beautiful jumbo shrimp like that. Look at how beaut. These were probably alive, yesterday. That's how good they are. I am going to teach you how to buy good shrimp and bad shrimp in this segment. I am also going to teach you different ways of serving it. But for right now, let's just talk about shrimp. Shrimp has been around forever. Going back to 1926 and in the New York Times, there was actually a fancy ad for Shrimp Cocktail being the appetizer for a special Christmas dinner. So with that said, I think it also got the name Shrimp Cocktail because during prohibition, there was no liquor being served and the cocktail glasses were just collecting dust. So here was a nice fancy way to put your shrimp around your glass and say voila, here's a Shrimp Cocktail so that is how it got its name. When I come back, we are going to go over ingredients, hardware to cook everything and service, cost and storage and I promise we are going to have fun today. It's Shrimp Cocktail here on Expert Village. "