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  2. Medieval cuisine - Wikipedia

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    For most medieval Europeans, it was a humble brew compared with common southern drinks and cooking ingredients, such as wine, lemons and olive oil. Even comparatively exotic products like camel milk and gazelle meat generally received more positive attention in medical texts. Beer was just an acceptable alternative and was assigned various ...

  3. Early modern European cuisine - Wikipedia

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    The culinary fashion of European elites changed considerably in this period. Typically medieval spices like galangal and grains of paradise were no longer seen in recipes. . Updated recipes still had the strong acidic flavors of earlier centuries, but by the 1650s new innovative recipes blending subtle savory flavors like herbs and mushrooms could be found in Parisian cookboo

  4. Peasant foods - Wikipedia

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    Horsebread, a low-cost European bread that was a recourse of the poor; Katemeshi, a Japanese peasant food consisting of rice, barley, millet and chopped daikon radish [8] Lampredotto, Florentine dish or sandwich made from a cow's fourth stomach; Panzanella, Italian salad of soaked stale bread, onions and tomatoes

  5. Scientists discover why most tomatoes taste awful -- and how ...

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    RELATED: Different ways to eat tomatoes "Fruits harvested from off-season, greenhouse-grown tomato plants have a poor reputation," the authors write. "These studies represent the first reported ...

  6. Tomato - Wikipedia

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    The tomato (US: / t ə m eɪ t oʊ /, UK: / t ə m ɑː t oʊ /), Solanum lycopersicum, is a plant whose fruit is an edible berry that is eaten as a vegetable. The tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes tobacco, potato, and chili peppers.

  7. Ancient Roman cuisine - Wikipedia

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    In particular, spinach and eggplant (aubergine) were introduced later from the Arab world, and tomatoes, potatoes, capsicum peppers, maize (the modern source of polenta) [12] and beans of the Phaseolus genus Phaseolus vulgaris( green - French and runner, lima, kidney) [14] [circular reference] only appeared in Europe following the discovery of ...

  8. 13 Foods Banned in Other Countries (but Not Here) - AOL

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    1. Ritz Crackers. Wouldn't ya know, a cracker that's all the rage in America is considered an outrage abroad. Ritz crackers are outlawed in several other countries, including the United Kingdom ...

  9. Early impact of Mesoamerican goods in Iberian society

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    While initially a crop of the Indian subcontinent, the cultivation of sugar in the New World had significant effects on Spanish society. New World sugar cultivation added to the growing power of the Spanish and Portuguese economies while also increasing the popularity of slave labor (which had severe impacts on African, American, and European societies).