Mushroom Ketchup for a Blood-Red Steak

Fogg continues his morning feast with ‘a scarlet slice of roast beef garnished with mushrooms’ and we’re going to follow his lead with a mushroom ketchup from the Reform Club’s Alexis Soyer. The word ‘ketchup’ comes from ‘kôe-chiap’ — used by Chinese seafarers as early as the seventeenth century to describe the brine of pickled fish — and the word sailed its way to our shores by way of maritime trading. The Bri