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Iconic food and gustatory moments in history.

Pad Thai: Noodle is Your Lunch
This article was originally posted at Adventures in Food and Word. I remember very distinctly sitting in a restaurant as a child with my mother and uncle in Lansing, a city with a much broader selection of world cuisine than Kalamazoo. It was a restaurant that my uncle liked for its chicken pad thai, which I had never heard of in my entire (admittedly short) life.
By Crysta Coburn4 years ago in Feast
The History of Pizza
Pizza is one of the most popular foods in the United States, with over 38% of Americans eating pizza at least once a month. But where did this delicious dish come from? And how has it evolved throughout time? To answer these questions and more, we must start back in Ancient Greece.
By Basketball Town News 4 years ago in Feast
Why the King of England Banned Coffee
In 1652, an enterprising dealer started selling a new drug out of an alley in London. The drug promised its users extra energy, focus, and alertness. The dealer made a lot of money — the stimulant he sold was a big hit. Its users soon became addicted and came back again and again. Soon copycats were importing the stuff; the drug was everywhere on London’s streets. Addicts began to organize their social lives around the drug’s consumption, spending their afternoons in special places built just for ingesting it. It’s no wonder that the government eventually moved to ban the stuff. I’m writing, of course, about the scourge of coffee in British society.
By George Dillard4 years ago in Feast
Ragu alla Bolognese (National Food of Italy)
Distributed in Emilia-Romagna, not only in Bologna, it is one of the most famous Italian dishes in the world; Not to be confused with the classic Italian stew, Neapolitan stew, or Piedmont white stew. These are all meat sauces that belong to the Italian culinary tradition.
By Sony rai4 years ago in Feast
Breakfast Of The Gods.
Cultivation of wheat began about 8,000 AD, with increasingly better strains of wheat eventually reaching the point where they had enough gluten to make yeasted breads by 1,350 AD, according to archaeologists.
By Briane Pagel4 years ago in Feast
Everything You Need To Know After The Jasmine Tea
Known in India as the "queen of flowers", jasmine is considered not only a decorative plant but also a remedy against stress and other nervous disorders.
By James Heavystorm4 years ago in Feast
Everything You Need To Know About Black Tea
Black tea differs from other types of tea (white, green, oolong) by the high degree of oxidation of Camellia Sinensis leaves. It is a category that includes very diverse varieties, so you will surely find one to your liking. Get acquainted with the universe of black tea!
By James Heavystorm4 years ago in Feast
The Tin Can
Tonight you come home from a long day at work or school or whatever it is that you do, maybe you’re a well off retiree with no nearby relatives and you spend your days walking circuits around the neighborhood, or maybe you’re 5 years out of college working 2 jobs and also driving Uber just to make ends meet, or maybe you do any number of things in between, but the point is that you come home after a long day and you are tired. You don’t have the energy to cook, but you still have to eat something to satiate the grumbling in your stomach and to keep your parents/children/sibling/partner from worrying.
By George Murray4 years ago in Feast
Shocking curiosities about coffee (why was coffee banned in Romania?)
1. The history of coffee According to legend, the coffee was discovered by an Ethiopian shepherd named Kaldi, sometime in the ninth century AD. He noticed the effects of coffee beans on his goats, so he brought the beans to some Sufi monks who lived nearby. . However, researchers believe that the story is an apocryphal one, because it appears for the first time in the seventeenth century, in the writings of Antoine Faustus Nairon, the author of one of the first treatises on coffee.
By Maria Ostasevici 4 years ago in Feast
Family Traditions
Who would have thought a simple thing as Soda can bring back so much memory. This past weekend I made my way to my local department store, Kroger’s. While passing through the international isle unknowingly, my eyes gazed upon a section of bottled sodas. I immediately stopped to grasp that nostalgic moment I was blessed with. These were not just ordinary soda bottles, but the old fashion glass bottle of Fanta orange soda. If you grew up outside America, you would resonate with these sodas. Chilled glass-bottled Fanta orange was always the icing on the cake for every major Holiday we ever celebrated. And when you saw these special sodas, you immediately knew special guests were present in your compound or it was a special holiday. For me, growing up, Christmas and New Year’s was always Our All-Time Favorite Holiday with our Mother. She would wake up at Wee Hours at night to Cook Chapati (an unleavened flatbread, also referred to as roti or naan), organic farm hen/chicken (Kuku Kienyeji as we referred to it) along with Chilled Fanta Orange (preferably known as Fanta Baridi) just so it would be ready by the time we woke up. No one Knew when she went to the store to buy the Sodas nor woke up to cook. You were just awakened by the Aroma of her cooking on Christmas and New Year’s Day.
By Pam Zee4 years ago in Feast
A Brief Overview of Gourmet Coffee
The word Gourmet is used to refer to the range of prosecutors, the cutting, or the quantity of the vast amount of food and beverage we eat. Sources of food and beverages have long been linked to the common role of the rich and famous who may face the costs of major tests that often accompany many of these types of better foods and beverages. Coffee is a beverage that has been readily available in modest, casual and short-lived ways and the pace of coffee consumption among people from around the world continues to increase year by year. Gourmet coffee may have recently been served in the best restaurants and found commonly served in lucky homes, but gourmet coffee is widely available and sensible to a wide range of people and is available in the settings assortment today.
By OS WORLD4 years ago in Feast
Loosen Your Corsets: The Titanic's Final 11 Course Meal
The Titanic was known for a lot of things, the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, over the top luxury for first class passengers, less luxurious accommodations for the mere mortals, and of course, sinking.
By Jessica Bugg4 years ago in Feast