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Sausages were made by the Sumerians (Iraquis) before 3,000 BC. Many manuscripts refer to sausage making thousands of years earlier and we know that the Chinese made lachang from goat and lamb around 590 BC.  Homer …

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Thousands of years ago the Romans made gnocchi and today most countries in the world offer dumplings in some form or other. Gnocchi are, essentially, little dumplings made from potatoes, wheat flour, semolina or even bread …

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In ancient Egypt the hibiscus flower grew in the gardens and formed part of many dishes – particularly because it was believed to be an aphrodisiac. Queens bathed in milk, slaves cooled the air with …

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The first tea plant (camellia sinensis) originated in South East Asia around northeasernt India, the north of Burma and the southwest of China and Tibet and the birthplace of tea seems to be in the …

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The Battenberg cake was made for the marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt, granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Louis Battenberg in 1884. Curiously, Victoria’s daughter married Prince Henry of Battenberg a year later and they …

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Tea made with a teabag doesn’t really taste as good as tea made correctly. It tastes like tea made in a paper bag, which it is – but since they do exist and since we …

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The word raclette is French – it is derived from the word racler which means to scrape and raclette is eaten by scraping.  This glorious cheese experience originated in the canton of Valais in Switzerland and …

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There are few things more American than a hamburger and most of us that grow up outside America, have mental images  of American kids sitting in long, slinky cars watching movies, eating hamburgers and drinking …