Food

Saturday, 5 July 2025

Chocolate is one of the most popular foods and flavors in the world. It was already known 4 thousand years ago. The ancient inhabitants of today's Mex ...

Did you know?

Wagyū Beef

Wagyū beef is a meat native to Japan that comes from four breeds of Japanese cattle.

These breeds are Japanese Black (Kuroge Washu) Japanese Red (Akage Washu) Japanese Shorthorn (Nihon Tankaku Washu) Japanese Polled (Mukaku Washu)

Read all facts

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.

Read all facts

Chocolate

Chocolate is a confectionery containing cocoa (cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder), sugar, and other additives (like milk, which is added to milk chocolate).

Directive 2000/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23rd June defines chocolate as ...

Find out more

Cheesecake

Cheesecake can be baked or prepared cold, without heat treatment.

In addition to cottage cheese, which is the best choice, cheesecake can also be made with cream chee ...

Find out more

Coffee

Also in 1901, Luigi Bezzera patented his first coffee maker and became an innovator in the field.

However, he could not sell it, only done by Desiderio Pavoni, who refined Bezzera’s invention and marketed it.He presented it at a trade fair in Milan in 1906.

Read all facts

Eggs

In the 19th century, the dried egg industry developed.

In 1878, a company in St. Louis began the process of drying eggs and producing a light brown flour-l ...

Find out more

Kombucha

Tea mushroom has a gelatinous structure with a white or light orange color.

It is formed by many species of bacteria and yeast present in a uniform culture. The quantitative an ...

Find out more

Parmesan

Parmesan is a hard rennet type cheese, made from semi-skimmed cow's milk and aged for at least twelve months.

Rennet cheeses are a type of cheese made by denaturing milk with rennet (a digestive enzyme). Rennet ...

Find out more

Kimchi

There are around 200 variants of this dish, often of a local range.

Read all facts

Honey

Based on the degree of crystallization of honey, a distinction is made between honey in a liquid state (Patoka) and crystallized honey (buckthorn).

The crystallization of honey is a natural phenomenon. The crystallization time varies for different ...

Find out more

16 facts about Mozzarella

The most recognizable Italian cheese in the world

Mozzarella is the most recognizable and third most often bought Italian cheese, after Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano. It is always associated wi ...

17 facts about Kimchi

Traditional Korean dish

Kimchi is a staple Korean delicacy, served as a side dish with almost every meal. It consists of salted and fermented vegetables, including various ca ...

10 facts about Hot dog

One of the most popular fast foods

Hot dogs are typical representatives of fast food. They are prepared swiftly and consumed even faster. Even though the fashion for eating hot dogs spr ...