Food — Page 7
Food curiosities
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German chocolate cake is not German: it is named after an American called Samuel German.
In 1852 Samuel German developed a sweet baking chocolate for the Baker's company, sold as 'German's Sweet Chocolate'…
Cornflakes were created at a sanatorium as part of a health diet.
At the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, the brothers John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg accidentally left cooked…
The pepper mash for Tabasco sauce is aged for up to three years in oak barrels.
On Avery Island, Louisiana, the peppers are mashed with salt on the day they are picked and stored in white oak…
The Romans sweetened wine with a syrup boiled in lead pots, which contained lead acetate.
Grape juice was boiled slowly until it thickened into a syrup called 'sapa' or 'defrutum'. The lead in the pots…
