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Spanish Food
The Romans set the Spanish cooking base of wheat, olives and grapes. The Muslims added almonds, oranges, rice and saffron. The New World tossed in chocolate, corn, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes. Food in general is not spicy, though the use of garlic throughout Spain is common. The peppers used are generally sweet rather than hot,…
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British Wartime Food: How Britain Fed Itself During World War Two
British Shopkeeper cancelling coupons. April 1943 United States Office of War Information, Overseas Picture Division. In Britain, during the First World War, 1914 to 1918, queues for food had become dangerously long. A Ministry of Food was created to help with the homefront food situation, and rationing was introduced starting with sugar in December 1917,…
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Medieval Food
At some point in the early Middle Ages, as Germanic cultures prevailed over southern cultures, the rich abandoned the Greek and Roman custom of lying on sofas at banquets, and sat upright instead. This freed up the other hand for cutting and made more utensils possible. Impressing guests at banquets in the Middle Ages was…
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Tex-Mex Food
The name “Tex-Mex” is a combination of “Texas” and “Mexico.” It’s used to describe a cuisine which is an Americanized form of Mexican cooking — or more precisely, Mexican food, largely from northern Mexico as it has come to be made in Texas. Or, as some wags have put it, Mexican food for gringos. The…
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Roman Food
Roman food mosaic. Vatican. 2005. © Sue Schenk This entry is about food in Rome, the ancient empire. There will be at some point a separate entry on food in modern-day Rome, the city. Rome was founded, historians believe, by 625 BC (though the Romans themselves believed their city was founded in 735 BC.) The…
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Mexican Food
Mexican food is fusion food. It’s a blend of Spanish, other European and even Mennonite traditions tossed in with the indigenous food and cooking traditions. While Mediterranean food was founded, though, on the trinity of wine, bread and the olive, the foundation for Mexican food is corn, beans and squash. Mexicans didn’t stop eating what…
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Québecois Food
Québec is bordered on the top by the Arctic, on the west by the Canadian province of Ontario, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south by the American states of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. It is a very cold climate. In early May, there are often still huge…
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Canadian Food
Potatoes on Prince Edward Island © Denzil Green The roots of Canadian cooking are British-American. Ethnic food started came to the fore in Canadian food magazines and kitchens in the 1970s. Still, when Canadians talk about “good old-fashioned food”, it’s the pre-1980s dishes and foods that they are referring to. It was a Canada where…
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