History and Origins of Foods

The Tudors mainly ate meat because the animals could be kept alive for use as food year round. The meat included oxen, deer, pigs, wild boar, badger, chicken, pigeons, sparrows, heron, crane, pheasant, woodcock, partridge, blackbirds, peacocks, larks, eel, quail, snipe, salmon, sole, turbot, whiting, lobster, crayfish, pike, and rabbit.

They ate fruits and vegetables such as artichokes, turnips, green peas, cucumbers, leeks, garlic, parsnips, skirrets (like parsnips), collards and kale (types of cabbage), lentils, turnips, broad beans, onions, spinach, carrots, beets, artichokes, radishes, asparagus, and olives, but only when they were in season.

Bread was served with every meal. They also ate fruit tarts, custards, quince pie, and cheese.

Seasonings and spices were used, especially to disguise the poor quality of the food.

Water was so polluted that they drank ale or wine with their meals. They also drank milk but there was no way to keep it fresh so milk had to be drunk the same day it was obtained.

Poorer people ate pottage which consisted of peas, milk, egg yolks, breadcrumbs and parsley which would be flavored with saffron and ginger.

There is much controversy about who invented the ice cream. Many countries claim the invention and give credit to their respective initiators. The first reference that we can have is of A.D 54â??68 - Roman Emperor Nero is assumed to have pushed his slaves into the mountains to fetch snow to mix with nectar, fruit pulp, and honey. This may be a myth too.

The ancient Natives of South and Central America (Mayas, Aztecs, Incas, ect.) were the first to discover, harvest, and use the cocoa bean as chocolate.

Paella is from spain (off the east coast)

According to prehispanic history, Lord Quetzalcoatl gave the recipe of ahuacamolli to the Toltec people (900-1100 AD) and from there, it spread to the rest of Mesoamerica, becoming a common dish to cultures such as Aztec or Maya. As both civilizations are native of Mexico, guacamole is considered a traditional Mexican dish.

They originated in Spain.

This is a common misconception, it is actually a myth that it was originally created in Spain. The actual truth is noodles were invented in Denmark by the 3rd King. King Alfred III.

Food was prepared by cooks and a good cook was a highly valued slave. If a person were of lower class, he would most times purchase his food already cooked as cooking was forbidden in many apartments due to the risk of fire.

"Mousse" began with the Early Latin word "mulsus" ("Mulsus" was wine mixed with honey; the word itself meant "mixed with honey"). "Mulsus" turned into the Latin word "mulsum" ("Mulsum" was "mulsus" with a new definition; "Mulsum" literally meant "honey wine"). "Mulsum" turned into the Late Latin word "mulsa" ("Mulsa" was another new word that still meant "honey wine"). "Mulsa" turned into the Old French word "mousse" ("Mousse" meant "frothy"). The word is used as a noun for a french desert plate, and a type of hairstyling product. Mousse originated in France at an unspecified date, by an unconfirmed group of people (it may have been a single person alone). (unknown - needs editing)

Yes Canada does. We export maple syrup to Japan, China, Russia,

Mexico, the United States, nearly every country in the world

except for third-world countries, who sadly can't afford to buy it

so mostly to rich countries.

in a pasturizing farm!

Pasteurisation is the process of heating liquids for the purpose of destroying bacteria, protozoa, moulds and yeasts. The process was named after its creator, French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur. The first pasteurisation test was completed by Pasteur and Claude Bernard on 20 April 1862.

Unlike sterilisation, pasteurisation is not intended to kill all micro-organisms in the food or liquid. Instead, pasteurisation aims to achieve a "logarithmic reduction" in the number of viable organisms, reducing their number so they are unlikely to cause disease (assuming the pasteurised product is refrigerated and consumed before its expiration date). Commercial-scale sterilisation of food is not common because it adversely affects the taste and quality of the product.

the first chocolate was invented in AD 600, by the Aztecs. But, it wasn't like a chocolate bar or anything, it was a drink which tasted bitter and disgusting because there was no milk, or even sugar. However, the first chocolatebar like the ones we eat now where properly invented by Herni Nestle 1875, which had added milk, and in the shape of a BAR!

• The ancient Greeks chewed mastiche - a chewing gum made from the resin of the mastic tree.
• The ancient Mayans chewed chicle which is the sap from the sapodilla tree.
• North American Indians chewed the sap from spruce trees and passed the habit along to the settlers.
• Early American settlers made a chewing gum from spruce sap and beeswax.
• In 1848, John B. Curtis made and sold the first commercial chewing gum called the State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.
• In 1850, Curtis started selling flavored paraffin gums becoming more popular than spruce gums.
• On December 28 1869, William Finley Semple became the first person to patent a chewing gum - U.S patent #98,304.
• In 1869, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna introduced Thomas Adams to chicle.
• In 1871, Thomas Adams patented a machine for the manufacture of gum.
• In 1880, John Colgan invented a way to make chewing gum taste better for a longer period of time while being chewed.
• By 1888, an Adams' chewing gum called Tutti-Frutti became the first chew to be sold in a vending machine. The machines were located in a New York City subway station.
• In 1899, Dentyne gum was created by New York druggist Franklin V. Canning.
• In 1906, Frank Fleer invented the first bubble gum called Blibber-Blubber gum. However, the bubble blowing chew was never sold.
• In 1914, Wrigley Doublemint brand was created. William Wrigley, Jr. and Henry Fleer were responsible for adding the popular mint and fruit extracts to a chicle chewing gum.
• In 1928, an employee of the Frank H. Fleer Company, Walter Diemer invented the successful pink colored Double Bubble, bubble gum. The very first bubble gum was invented by Frank Henry Fleer in 1906. He called it Blibber-Blubber. Fleer's recipe was later perfected by Walter Diemer, who called his product Double Bubble.

Once again, research pays off. As with the origins of any word, there is bound to be arguments as to what is the correct answer. Sadly when a new word is struck, often no one takes note to provide accurate historical evidence. So with the word Hoagie, it does lay clouded in mystery. But, the best story to explain how this infamous sandwich got its name, I go with the story from the late 19th century Philadelphia and Hog Island and its \Irish and Italian immigrant residents who where known as 'Hogans', and the traditional sandwich which was a meeting of the cultures, also in other areas known as 'po-boys', Dagwood's, and of course the most common term 'submarine sandwich' or SUB.

Chocolate is made of Cacao beans, and cacao beans grow near the equator. Some places that are well known for growing chocolate or Costa Rica and Equator.

A German immigrant named Frederick William Rueckheim .

Spain

The first 'Scottish' people written in history come from Roman times and they were The Picts. However, it is known that people were living in what is now called Scotland more than 3000 years B.C.

Most Scottish people go up my butt and 'round the corner for vacation.

A spice is any substance that is used to alter the flavor of food, which includes such things as salt, which is a mineral and not an herb, or cinnamon, which is derived from tree bark and thus is also not an herb. The term herb really applies only to a leaf that has some flavor that we value, such as basil or oregano. Many spices do not derive from leaves.

Scholastic has a wonderful website that explains about Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims. Venison and duck were meats that were served along with corn, squash and beans. There was no turkey or potatoes served back then. The corn was ground into a sort of oatmeal like porridge. They would have had seafood and onions as well. They would have eaten outside because the houses were too small to have more than one family inside.

Germany does not have an officially recognized national fruit. The German national tree is the oak and its national animal is the golden eagle.

If you mean Millionaire Shortbread - shortbread base, caramel filling and chocolate topping - then possibly Scotland.

The Romans ate bread a bowl of beans or porridge lunch was cheese and bread maybe olives or celery for dinner poor Romans ate fish with asparagus and a fig for desert wealthy Romans had mice cooked in honey or roasted parrots stuffed with dates,salted jellyfish and snails dipped in milk.