Food

Chocolate is a confectionery containing cocoa (cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder), sugar, and other additives (like milk, which is added to milk chocolate).

Beer has its own holiday, which is celebrated on the first Friday of August.

The original pizza was square.

The first written and preserved recipe for cheesecake dates back to 230 and is by Athenaeus of Naukratis.

The spread of the Roman Empire brought cheesecake to more and more distant territories.

There are two types of kimchi: seasonal and winter.

The recipe for the cheesecake was given by Cato the Elder’s great-grandson, Mark Porius Cato.

There are about two million purebred Wagyū cows in the world.

French fries are most often prepared in vegetable oil, although they were originally fried in beef tallow.

The cocoa nibs, mainly the seeds, are ground into cocoa mass, also known as cocoa crumbs or cocoa liquor.