Results: As American As Apple Pie?
Published on 04/27/2019
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As American as apple pie -- sure, this phrase conjures up images of 4th of July fireworks and The Star Spangled Banner, but it turns out apple pie isn't really all that American. It may come as some surprise to you that apple pie is really a British invention. English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer. The 1381 recipe lists the ingredients as good apples, good spices, figs, raisins and pears. The cofyn of the recipe is a casing of pastry. Saffron is used for colouring the pie filling. Did you know apple pie was a British invention?
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Here are some other food origins that may surprise you. How many of these did you already know?
Ketchup originated in China, first translated to fish sauce, and did not at first contain tomatoes. It contained salted and fermented anchovies
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Sauerkraut, although translated means sour cabbage in German, was actually invented in China
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Fortune cookies are not Chinese. They are actually a Japanese invention. Not only that , fortune cookies are not even served in China
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Croissants were actually invented in Austria, in the 17th century, brought to France in the 18th century by Queen Marie-Antoinette
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While we may attribute tempura cooking to the Japanese, it was actually a Portuguese innovation.
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And that Caesar salad that we assume originated in Italy (named after Julius Caesar himself) actually owes its origins to a chef in Mexico, Caesar Cardini (although he was an Italian immigrant)
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How many of these food origins are you familiar with?
According to an Ethiopian legend, the caffeinated power of coffee was discovered when a goat herder witnessed his goats' energetic behavior after snacking on the berries of the coffee plant. He tried some for himself and felt the same buzz-like effects
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While fish tastes great with a bit of lemon, the pairing actually originated during the Middle Ages, when it was believed that juice from a slice of lemon would dissolve any small fish bones that may have been swallowed.
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Nutella, originally known as pasta gianduja, was created in Italy when hazelnuts were used to stretch the rationed chocolate supply during WWII. The earliest version was a foil-wrapped loaf that could be sliced and served on a piece of bread
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In 1898, brothers W.K. Kellogg and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg were working in a sanitarium in Michigan. They were trying to find healthy food to serve to their patients and some boiled wheat went stale. When they tried rolling the hardened dough it cracked into flakes, which they toasted. The patients liked the toasted flakes so much they tried other grains. Corn flakes was an instant success
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John Lea and William Perrins, were asked to recreate a spice recipe that a nobleman had really liked on his trip to India. The chemists didn't like the concoction they came up with, and left it in jars in the cellar. A few years later, they rediscovered the sauce and found that the fermenting that took place while it was stashed away turned the sauce into Worcestershire sauce
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At age 11, Frank W. Epperson invented the popsicle by accident. It was 1905, and Epperson put a mixing stick in a cup of soda-water powder and water and left it on his porch overnight. The next morning he found the mixture frozen.
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