Tea is the world’s most popular drink. It is the name given to the leaves of the tea plant Thea Sinensis, an evergreen tree or shrub which grows in damp tropical or subtropical regions at altitudes of up to 7000 feet. Tea plant may have originated in India and reached China by 200 AD. Tea [...]
The word pasta simply means “dough”, is the staple diet of Italy. It is probably indigenous to Italy, have been developed by the Etruscans (an ancient Italian state) from the Greek recipe. It was a dough cut into strips and called laganon, from which the word lasagne is ultimately derived. Yet one of the earliest [...]
The word caviar entered in English via Italian, and is derived from Persian, from khaya “egg” (Middle Persian khayak “egg”). Some also think it is derived from the Persian word (Xâg-âvar), meaning “the roe-generator”; others say chav-jar, which means “cake of power”, a reference to the ancient Persian practice of eating caviar. In Persian, the [...]
Sheep and goats have an ancestry that certainly predates cattle. For centuries, cross breeding has been applied to rear lambs for two purposes; to provide wool and meat. The earliest evidence of animal domestication comes from northern Iraq, where long-haired, mouflon sheep and (Ovis orientalis) were kept for their fleece and eventually slaughtered for their [...]
