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Chilled fruit salads will begin appearing on northern tables round about now whilst the chefs in the south will be offering their fruit crazy clientele compotes, hot fruit salads, fruity tarts, cakes and desserts. Those …

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It’s berry picking season in some parts of the world now and to make berry picking more fun, we have a look at what a berry is. In botanical terms, a berry is a fleshy …

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It’s common cause that South Africans are hospitable but this FIFA World Cup ™ has seen some South Africans go to extraordinary lengths to go that extra mile! One of the most amusing has to …

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Since we’re unplugging Germany, we decided to glimpse at the regions without going into too much detail – we’ll leave that for another day. Swabia is really just a region lying to the east of …

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Mecklenburg-West Pomerania only became a province in 1990 – the biggest island in this young province is Rügen with it’s chalk cliffs and fertile soil – typical of the province and the reason why these …

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Roman food was eaten in Byzantium until the Middle Ages and olives and olive oil, wheaten bread and plenty of fish was the order of the day. The salty garum that was so predominant in …

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Here potages and broths were very popular but they were also famous for “the preparation of meat, fish, roasts, and the sauces that were considered appropriate to each dish”. Unlike the British, the northern French …

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Italians have always eaten well and it wasn’t too different in Medieval Italy (which was only the northern part of Italy) – after all, spices and exotic foods arrived on galleys belonging to the powerful …

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Once home to those most curious of people, the Neanderthals, Spain in the Middle Ages produced a cuisine  quite unique for many reasons: firstly, she was cut off from the rest of Europe by the …

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Here barely was mainly used for beer and rye for bread whilst oats was fed to the animals and eaten in dire circumstances as a porridge – little did they know how healthy oats was. …