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List of food origins. Some foods have always been common in every continent, such as many seafood and plants. Examples of these are honey, ants, mussels, crabs and coconuts. Nikolai Vavilov initially identified the centers of origin for eight crop plants, subdividing them further into twelve groups in 1935. [ 1]
Congee ( / ˈkɒndʒiː /, derived from Tamil கஞ்சி [kaɲdʑi]) [ 1][ 2][ 3] is a form of savoury rice porridge made by boiling rice in a large amount of water until the rice softens. Depending on rice-water ratio, the thickness of congee varies from a Western oatmeal porridge to a gruel.
Good Night, Sleep Tight is a major children's poetry anthology collated by Ivan Jones and Mal Lewis Jones. [1] It contains 366 poems by world famous and lesser known poets, including some of the editors' own poems. There is one poem for each night of the year. [1] The book is divided into twelve sections with each month illustrated by a well ...
A bagel ( Yiddish: בײגל, romanized : beygl; Polish: bajgiel; also spelled beigel) [ 1] is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. [ 2] Bagels are traditionally made from yeasted wheat dough that is shaped by hand into a torus or ring, briefly boiled in water, and then baked. The result is a dense, chewy, doughy ...
Food history. Food history is an interdisciplinary field that examines the history and the cultural, economic, environmental, and sociological impacts of food and human nutrition. It is considered distinct from the more traditional field of culinary history, which focuses on the origin and recreation of specific recipes.
The origin of the English word cat, Old English catt, is thought to be the Late Latin word cattus, which was first used at the beginning of the 6th century. [4] The Late Latin word may be derived from an unidentified African language. [5] The Nubian word kaddîska 'wildcat' and Nobiin kadīs are possible sources or cognates. [6]
Melatonin, an indoleamine, is a natural compound produced by various organisms, including bacteria and eukaryotes. [ 1] Its discovery in 1958 by Aaron B. Lerner and colleagues stemmed from the isolation of a substance from the pineal gland of cows that could induce skin lightening in common frogs.
Hippopotamus. The hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus amphibius) ( / ˌhɪpəˈpɒtəməs /; pl.: hippopotamuses or hippopotami; , also shortened to hippo ( pl.: hippos ), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two extant ...