
For most of its 4,000-year history, Chocolate was actually consumed as a bitter beverage rather than as a sweet edible treat.

For most of its 4,000-year history, Chocolate was actually consumed as a bitter beverage rather than as a sweet edible treat.

Thomas Jefferson’s Macaroni Recipe:
6 eggs. yolks & whites.
2 wine glasses of milk
2 lb of flour
a little salt
work them together without water, and very well.
roll it then with a roller to a paper thickness
cut it into small peices which roll again with the hand into long slips, & then cut them to a proper length.
put them into warm water a quarter of an hour.
drain them.
dress them as maccaroni.
but if they are intended for soups they are to be put in the soup & not into warm water.

Meteorito is a Cabernet Sauvignon wine that was aged in a barrel with a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite for a year.

In 2013, Syrian rebels banned the croissant in Aleppo because it celebrates European victory over Muslims.