Curiosities

Traditionally, the fish is marinated or salted before eating, with the aim of preserving it for longer periods of time. One of the most popular fish ...

For many, cooking is just a daily chore, for others it's an entire art form. Today, some names from the past are world-famous with their culinary ...

Be careful about what kinds of diets you get involved in because oftentimes a great majority of them turn out to be nothing but a marketing trick for ...

A clever way of repelling mosquitoes is to eat certain foods that contain vitamin B1. We don't sense its aroma but mosquitoes do sense it in our blood and ...

Egyptian cuisine is a heaven for vegetarians, since it's based primarily on the consumption of vegetables.

The Philadelphia City Council has passed a 1. 5 cents-per-ounce tax on all sweet and diet beverages. The typical soda can is exactly 12 fl ounces. With the ...

But just so you don't leave your Italian waiter completely bemused, it's important to know that many of the dishes which have been labeled as Italian over ...

Tea is one of the oldest beverages known to man. Its history dates back millennia for the Chinese, while only a mere few centuries for the West. Tea finds ...

Spätzle is a type of noodle made from eggs that is part of traditional German cuisine. The main ingredients of Spätzle are: eggs (mandatory), flour and a ...

Mother nature is never short on surprises. Case in point is the mushroom Clathrus archeri, with its rather strange and even sinister appearance. It's more ...