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Chow-chow. Chow-chow (also spelled chowchow or chow chow) is a pickled dish popular in North America whose origins are unclear. Some suggest an origin from the American South, [1] other sources suggest it originated in Canada and was brought south by the Acadians who migrated to the American South after being expelled from from the Maritimes in the mid 1700s, [2] another theory is that it ...
The Chow Chow is a spitz-type of dog breed originally from Northern China. [2] The Chow Chow is a sturdily built dog, square in profile, with a broad skull and small, triangular, erect ears with rounded tips. The breed is known for a very dense double coat that is either smooth or rough.
The Karankawa's autonym is Né-ume, meaning "the people". [1]The name Karakawa has numerous spellings in Spanish, French, and English. [1] [12]Swiss-American ethnologist Albert S. Gatschet wrote that the name Karakawa may have come from the Comecrudo terms klam or glám, meaning "dog", and kawa, meaning "to love, like, to be fond of."
1. You brought Mr Chow to America at a time when Chinese cuisine wasn't highly regarded here. Did you encounter resistance? There are three kinds of Chinese food: One is the great, great Chinese ...
Solutrean culture originated in present-day France, Spain and Portugal, from roughly 17,000 to 21,000 years ago. The Solutrean tool manufacturing epoch can be considered as the transitional stage between the flint tools of the Mousterian and the bone tools of the Magdalenian epochs, respectively. Solutrean tool-making employed techniques not ...
[1] [3] In 1821, Mexico gained its independence from Spain and secularized the missions. They sold the mission lands, known as ranchos, to elite ranchers and forced the Tongva to assimilate. [12] Most became landless refugees during this time. [12] In 1848, California was ceded to the United States following the Mexican-American War.
Mesoamerica and its cultural areas. Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
The origin of the term chowder is obscure. One possible source is the French word chaudron, [2] [3] the French word for cauldron, the type of cooking or heating stove on which the first chowders were probably cooked. [4] [5] Chodier was also a name for a cooking pot in the Creole language of the French Caribbean islands.