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There are legends about the origin of sugar. Here is one of them. When the soldiers of Alexander of Macedon came to India, sugar extracted from cane was already known there. At historians of the Macedonian army there are mentions of an unknown white solid product of sweet taste. This product was obtained from a special Indian cane, which "gives honey without bees." The name “cane honey” in Sanskrit sounded like “sarkara” or “sakkara”. The root of this word subsequently entered into all European languages...

It is prepared differently in every country, there are a huge number of recipes for this oriental dish, different traditions and rules, as it is. This dish is found in the tales of "A Thousand and One Nights" and is strongly associated with the East in modern man. A delicious pilaf. So who invented it? The exact date of birth of this dish is unknown, but scientists say that already in the II – III century BC, it was very popular. There is a version that the pilaf recipe came from China. This is not true, since the rice cooking technology in Chinese cuisine is somewhat different...

We all use cutlery. They are such an integral part of our life that we do not even think about the fact that they might not be. As, however, of all man-made objects surrounding us. Here, it would seem - an ordinary plug, which we use since childhood. After all, once it did not exist, which means that someone invented it. When and by whom was the fork invented? Who owns such a wonderful invention? Unfortunately, an exact answer to this question is impossible. The history of the cutlery familiar...

Coffee is not just a popular drink. A lot of legends go about him, and the history of his development continues to this day. It is difficult to imagine how much the views on the invigorating drink have changed in different years in different countries, but today there are only two. Behind one is coffee lovers, who cannot imagine life without coffee, and behind the second are opponents who consider the drink harmful and even narcotic. Where coffee was born as a drink In short, the history of coffee begins in the distant X century in hot Ethiopia...

Light and uncomplicated in preparation, subject to every not very advanced housewife, cabbage rolls have long been fond of as an independent and rather tasty dish. You can meet them at the family table or at a banquet, it is customary to treat guests or even the most sophisticated gourmets with this dish. Stuffed cabbage is an independent and tasty dish. Cabbage rolls are quite simple in their preparation, it is enough to roll the meat in a meat grinder, mix it with boiled rice, wrap this stuffing in a cabbage leaf, season it all with tomato paste and stew...

The story of how this sour-milk product came about seems rather unusual. It is believed that the Caucasian ridge, or rather its northern slope, is the birthplace of kefir fungi, these yellowish peas. Local residents gave them the name - “Millet of the Prophet”, and in some villages they were called - “grain of Mohammed”. According to legend, Mohammed himself brought these peas as a gift to the mountaineers. He taught them how to use these peas to make a special product. That's just the mountaineers were forbidden to give "grain of Mohammed" to the Gentiles...

Acquaintance with salt in different places could happen in different ways. The hunters, hunting down the game, noticed how a wild deer or elk licked a transparent stone like ice in the grass. But this ice did not melt neither in hands, nor in the sun. And when the hunters tried it with their tongues, imitating the animal, they felt an unusually pleasant and pungent taste. They broke off pieces of stone and carried it with them. It was rock salt. The discovery of salt and the beginning of its use was an era of the same importance as a person's acquaintance with agriculture...

The origin of the name "balsamic vinegar" is associated with the use of this drug in medicine earlier. And only after some time this term began to be used in culinary vocabulary. Due to the fact that it has a strong antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory effect, it was used to treat wounds. As a medicine, balsamic was used in 1503 (the beginning of the Great Plague) by Lucretia Borgia. Balsamic has long been made in the north of Italy, in the province of Modena, from high quality grape juice of the varieties Lambrusco, Trebbiano and Sangiovese...

The history of olive oil goes back many millennia. So, in the wild, olives have been around for 14 thousand years. In ancient Babylon, archaeologists found a cuneiform tablet with an agreement to purchase 25 liters of the highest quality olive oil by a certain Mr. Sin-Ashared. According to legend, once a person could travel from Mecca to Morocco in the shade of olive, fig and date trees. The homeland of olive trees was Southwest Asia. Caravans of travelers, loaded with the fruits of an olive tree, delivered them even to places where no one had ever tasted olives before...

History of Kvass The appearance of this invigorating drink has its roots in ancient times. The first mention of the drink, which was a cross between beer and kvass, is known, these records are subsidized another 6 thousand BC, it is impossible to tell who the “idea” of kvass belongs to, but notes from Egypt. Facts about fruit kvass from Babylon are also known. A similar drink in their writings was described by the Greeks Hippocrates and Herodotus. In Russia, kvass appeared a little more than a thousand...

Paella is rightly called Spanish pilaf. In both paella and pilaf, rice languishes, saturated with fat, aromas of spices and fillers. True, unlike pilaf, paella is eaten with a fork. The Spanish paella with Uzbek pilaf is related by a key role in folk customs, and, it can be said, in the fate of every Spaniard. It was the Spaniard, not the Spanish, since the preparation of paella was for a long time the prerogative of hot caballeros. Paellaire - a special frying pan with two handles, served not only as utensils, but as a kind of certificate of masculinity...

Kharcho soup is one of the most famous and popular soups in Georgia. Food arose there and has since been considered the national dish of Georgians. It is impossible to mix up kharcho with another first course. This is a thick consistency (especially in comparison with traditional dishes) and a very hearty soup. In different regions it is cooked in its own way, sometimes even with significant deviations from the recipe, but there are certain rules that are followed regardless of which territory the kharcho is prepared in...