History and Origins of Foods

Broccoli was certainly an Italian vegetable, as its name suggests, long before it was eaten elsewhere. Its first mention in France is in 1560, but in 1724 broccoli was still so unfamiliar in England that Philip Miller's Gardener's Dictionary (1724 edition) referred to it as a stranger in England and explained it as "sprout colli-flower" or "Italian asparagus". In the American colonies, Thomas Jefferson was also an experimentative gardener with a wide circle of European correspondents, from whom he got packets of seeds for rare vegetables such as tomatoes, noted the planting of broccoli at Monticello along with radishes, lettuce, and cauliflower on May 27, 1767. Nevertheless, broccoli remained an exotic in American gardens. In 1775, John Randolph, in A Treatise on Gardening by a Citizen of Virginia, felt he had to explain about broccoli: "The stems will eat like Asparagus, and the heads like Cauliflower."
Broccoli was naturalized by the D'Arrigo brothers, Stephano and Andrea, immigrants from Messina, Italy, whose company made some tentative plantings in San Jose, California in 1922, and shipped a few crates to Boston, where there was a thriving Italian immigrant culture in the North End, ready for a familiar green. The broccoli business boomed, with the d'Arrigo's brand name 'Andy Boy' named after Stephano's two-year-old son, Andrew, and backed with advertisements on the radio. So broccoli arrived in the U.S. in the 1920s as a 'new vegetable'.

The leftover pits of meat from pigs. Nice. Glad I don't eat sauseges. LOL.

Blackened fish/a la Paul Proudhomme

Chicken Francese

Chinese chicken & Oriental noodle salads.

Monkey bread

Mud pie & dirt cake

Pasta salad

Panzanella

Yes. The Red Dacca is a variety of banana, said to have originated in Costa Rica, and grown in Australia, Central America, Mexico and Ecuador. It has a red to maroon coloured skin, and light pink flesh inside.

What I know not might be right, but I think that Cheetos got their name from Cheetah.

These taste treats are only offered twice a year, Valentines and Sweetest Days. This year's delights go on sale right now (2/13) and will be sold as long as they last through tomorrow. (2/14)

A gallon of milk is a necessity that people have in their homes on any given day. In 1969 a gallon of milk cost 1.25.

Rome

One dessert with ice-cream in the middle named after a North American state would be Baked Alaska. Baked Alaska is a dessert with a sponge cake base topped with ice-cream and meringue that is quickly baked in the oven to brown the meringue.

Bagel as a loan word and ciambella di pane as a description are Italian equivalents of the English word "bagel." The second option translates literally as "ring-shaped object (made) of bread" in English. The respective pronunciations will be "BA-ghel" and "tcham-BEL-la dee PA-ney" in Italian.

Cupcakes were invented in 1946

A guava can be sweet or sour depending on the ripe-ness. It is said to taste like a tomatoe, this I'm not sure of.

Pizza comes from the area around the Kingdom of Naples, now modern day Italy.

I usually always go for the chocolate bunny ears first.

The flavor in gum lasts so long because of the igredients in the gum

There are several probabilities of the origins of the Tin Roof Sundae

Laws were passed in the US Midwest prohibiting the selling of Soda water on Sunday.

Area soda fountains got around this law by offering the Ice Cream Sundae as an alternative to Soda. Ice Cream topped with syrup with no soda added was not breaking the law.

The Tin roof sundae was a version of the Cherry sundae sold by Chester Platt in 1893. Platt's soda fountain in Ithaca New York was popular at the time and several area fountains added various toppings. Chocolate syrup and peanuts made up the "TIN ROOF" topping based on the original sound of the peanuts being removed from the cans in which they were sold, like the sound of rain on a tin roof.

If you really like chocolate then you are sacrificing something. You may find it hard, but you remember that Christ gave up his life for us - and that is a greater deed then giving up chocolate!

Actually, the first pancakes were from ancient Rome but they were potato based and drizzled with honey not syrup. The modern pancake is from France, but that is certainly not it's origin.

Nothing. There were no canned beers in 1958.

Around 3 kg is the weigth of registered worlds heaviest grapefruit.

They are at the top of the food pyramid in the fats group.

The average price of a gallon of milk in 2000 was about 2.76 dollars. It fluctuated slightly during the year but was the same price at end of the year that it was at the beginning.

Marshmallow Peeps are distributed by the Just Born Candy Company, founded by Russian immigrant Sam Born. It's said that Peeps were invented in 1953, when Just Born acquired another candy company, Rodda, that had a small line of 3-D marshmallow products.

Cucumber comes from the Medieval French coucombre, in time derived from the latin word cucumer and cucumis.Cucumer is the latin sub-word for Green (Cuc) Grower (Umer)

It is eaten in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Palestine...the Middle east really but its actually a Lebanese sweet made from lots of layers of filo pastry and loads of syrup and nuts. Try to make it sometime.