Showing posts with the label Food

How Air Raids in Britain Led to Shortage of Sausages in Germany

Nov 4, 2021

“It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb,” proclaimed a British Army recruitment poster publicized during W...

Why Did Ancient People Bury Butter in Bogs?

Mar 19, 2019

Peat bogs are favorite hunting grounds of archeologists because of the many odd surprises these marshy wetlands have revealed from time to t...

The Disgusting Food Museum

Oct 30, 2018

A new museum aimed to assault the olfactory senses of visitors and churn their stomach opened yesterday in Sweden’s third largest city, Mal...

The Scientists Who Starved to Death Surrounded By Food

Aug 15, 2018

The 900-day Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War was perhaps one of the most gruesome sieges in modern history. Hitler’s diabolic ...

That Time When America Banned Sliced Bread

Apr 9, 2018

Modern life is full of conveniences but few things are as convenient as sliced bread. Just think about it. To make a sandwich all you need ...

The Cheese Caves of Roquefort

Feb 29, 2016

The pungent odor and tangy taste of the Roquefort cheese, with its distinctive spots and veins of blue-green mold throughout, is not for eve...

The Black Eggs of Owakudani

Dec 16, 2015

Owakudani or “the Great Boiling Valley” in Hakone, Japan, is hardly the ideal tourist spot. It’s a large volcanic caldera formed around 3,00...

Astronaut Sandra Magnus Cooks in Zero Gravity

Sep 13, 2012

Food for astronauts working aboard the International Space Station usually come precooked and packaged in such a way so that it can be eaten...

Street Food Vendors From Around the World

Oct 29, 2011

In general understanding, street food is a quick meal or drink sold in a street or other public place, such as a market or fair, by a vendor...

Urine Soaked Boiled Eggs: A Chinese Delicacy

Oct 28, 2011

As spring sets in, a strange but familiar smell permeates the air in Dongyang City of China’s Zhejiang Province, as locals begin to eat the ...