Chocolat, Salut!
The History of Chocolate > With its velvety texture, inviting appearance and rich, sweet or not-so-sweet taste, it’s no wonder that chocolate is irresistibly tempting, in any form.
The Mayans believed the cocoa tree, whose beans are used to produce chocolate, belonged to the gods. And, that the beans were a divine gift to mankind. Tracing [...]
Fun with chocolate in New Zealand
Saturday 11 July to Friday 17 July, 2009, Dunedin, New Zealand.
What else can you do with chocolate besides eat it?
Dunedin, New Zealand students come up with some bizarre solutions during the Cadbury Chocolate Carnival, running next July.
The festival offers a tasty range of events and activities. With everything from chocolate therapy, a chocolate cooking class, chocolate [...]
Yummie Toblerones!
Toblerone is a leading chocolate brand within the Kraft Foods global portfolio, sold in over 150 countries worldwide.
Toblerone originates from the chocolatier’s family name “Tobler” combined with “torrone”, the Italian word for nougat. There are a great many legends about Toblerone’s triangular shape. Chocolate lovers around the world have always believed that Theodor Tobler [...]
All you need to know about Bordeaux wines
The CIVB [Conseil Interprofessionel du Vin de Bordeaux] has become one of the first wine growing regions to develop a website for education and promotion, launching its innovative website.
The design and features of bordeaux.com is aimed at generating a high level of international interest within the wine industry and among consumers. The multi-lingual element promotes the [...]
Cheddar cheese: did you know that?
Cheddar cheeses were once the result of a number of dairies in a parish pooling their milk to make one big wheel, leading to them being referred to as “corporation cheeses”.
One such hefty specimen was the 567kg cheese served at Queen Victoria’s wedding celebrations, might such excess have caused a nightmarish wedding night?
Army reaches soldiers through their stomachs, a home slice, yum, yum!
Army reaches soldiers through their stomachs plus a home slice, yum, yum!
According to this article New Foods for Marching on Stomach the US Pentagon is offering improved food options and supplements to soldiers, some of which are available in drugstores for general consumers.
A portion of the sales from HooAH! energy bars and HooAH! Soldier Fuel are [...]
McDonald’s new look
So the new, Starbucks-like look that McDonald’s has rolled out in this classic middle American test-market tickles the design palette in a way that no knock-your-eyes-out architectural whammy by Frank Gehry or Santiago Calatrava ever will.
We visit Museums by those architectural stars, but we practically live in McDonald’s. The company estimates that more than 25 [...]
The Hungarian Red Pepper Museum
The Museum has been in operation at its present place [6 Szent István út] since 1991. Prior to that, documents and tools connected to the history of red peper [paprika] planting were kept in the Mill Building of the Piac Square.
The Museum presents the history of red pepper ever since its crossing through the ocean. [...]
America’s Mustard Museum spreads joy
Hold the mustard with the curator of America’s only Museum dedicated to the pungent condiment.
Just before dawn on October 28, 1986, Barry Levenson stood in the middle of the condiment aisle at a 24-hour supermarket in Madison, Wisconsin, disconsolate over the loss his beloved Red Sox had suffered hours earlier to the New York Mets [...]
Do you know what Fisnogge is?
Fisnogge is a traditional Jewish calf’s foot jelly.
Literally meaning “foot foot”, the reiteration was born of a confusion of pronunciation between Yiddish words for foot [fis] and fish [fish], so asking for fish carelessly could result in receiving calf’s foot jelly!
“Nogge”, the Yiddish pronounciation of the Russian for “foot” was added as a clarifying suffix [...]
