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Thursday, 29 October 2026
15 facts about french fries
15 facts about french fries
Not so French after all
It is not known where the fries come from. Some say from France, others, Belgium. Whatever the truth, one thing is certain–they are delicious, and pro ...

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Beer
According to the Brewers Association, there are 79 beer styles in the world.
These styles are grouped into 15 families and fall into one of two categories: Ale (top-fermented beer) and Lager (bottom-fermented beer).
Cheesecake
The spread of the Roman Empire brought cheesecake to more and more distant territories.
Subsequent nations took over the recipe, modifying it and adapting it to their conditions by adding ...
Pizza
One slice of cheese pizza contains approximately 9.8 grams of fat, 12.7 grams of protein, and 280 calories.
Kimchi
The key ingredients of kimchi are napa cabbage, radish, carrot, garlic, chili pepper, onion, ginger, pepper, mustard, watercress, salt and sugar, sometimes accompanied by salted shrimp, anchovies or other seafood.
Sometimes soy sauce and sesame are added to the pickle.
French fries
The basic ingredients in fries are, of course, potatoes.
Ordinary potatoes can be replaced by yams. Some people let their imagination run wild even more and ...
Beer
There are four crucial ingredients in the production of beer: water, barley malt, hops, and yeast.
The process of creating beer begins with malting the fresh barley. Secondly, soaked barley is milled ...
Churro
Churros resemble doughnuts but are created from steamed dough.
Native doughnuts, as well as the aforementioned Chinese youtiao, are made from deep-fried yeast dough.Churros are prepared by squeezing the previously prepared steamed dough directly into the fat.
Coffee
Coffee fruits were used as early as the 1st century BC in Ethiopia.
Coffee was likely discovered by the Oromo people living in Ethiopia’s Kaffa region, harvesting it fr ...
Halva
Followers of a raw food diet crave raw halva, made with raw ingredients–tahini, almonds, agave nectar, and salt, mixed and frozen until firm.
Mozzarella
Sheep's milk mozzarella, sometimes called "mozzarella pecorella", is typical of Sardinia, Abruzzo and Lazio, where it is also called "mozzapecora".
It is made with the addition of lamb rennet.