Food

Thursday, 26 February 2026

Chocolate is one of the most popular foods and flavors in the world. It was already known 4 thousand years ago. The ancient inhabitants of today's Mex ...

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Cheesecake

Each country bakes cheesecakes specific to that place-there are more than a thousand recipes for this cake around the world.

Different types of cheese and additives are used. For example, New York cheesecake requires the addi ...

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Wagyū Beef

Although it is very difficult to find purebred Wagyū cattle outside of Japan, it is even more difficult to find genuine beef in the trade.

Dishonest sellers use many tricks to disguise the dubious origin of the meat they sell and make a fo ...

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Maple syrup

The Native Americans claim that this skill of obtaining maple syrup was accidentally passed on to them by the gods.

Legend has it that the Iroquois’ Chief Woksis threw his tomahawk into a maple tree on a winter day. ...

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Chocolate

The cocoa mass is mixed with cocoa butter in such proportions that the resulting product contains about 30% fat.

This stage also requires adding sugar. All this mass goes to the heated conchs, where it is intensiv ...

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Cheddar

The village of Cheddar was an ideal place for cheese making.

Near the village there is a limestone gorge, the Cheddar Gorge, with many caves that in the Middle Ages provided a stable temperature and adequate humidity for the ripening process.

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Coffee

There are two methods of extracting coffee beans from the fruit.

One is the wet method, in which the coffee fruit goes into a water-mill-like machine. There they are ...

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Chocolate

The next stage is tempering the chocolate.

Tempering the chocolate involves slow heating, followed by slowly cooling the mass. Basically, it me ...

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Halva

In many countries around the world, but mostly in Turkey, is used as a bread spread.

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Cheesecake

Cheesecake was a cake used in religious rituals and as food for participants in the Olympic Games.

Perhaps Aegimus wrote a book about cheesecake because he was concerned with the diet of Olympic athl ...

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Coffee

The coffee plant includes 104 species, most of which are native to Africa, with only a few from Asia.

Some species are cultivated.

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16 facts about Mozzarella

The most recognizable Italian cheese in the world

Mozzarella is the most recognizable and third most often bought Italian cheese, after Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano. It is always associated wi ...

17 facts about Kimchi

Traditional Korean dish

Kimchi is a staple Korean delicacy, served as a side dish with almost every meal. It consists of salted and fermented vegetables, including various ca ...

10 facts about Hot dog

One of the most popular fast foods

Hot dogs are typical representatives of fast food. They are prepared swiftly and consumed even faster. Even though the fashion for eating hot dogs spr ...