The herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world. Nutritionally its fuel value is that equal to that of a beefsteak.
Wine experts caution to never serve wine in a glass with a flared lip, which dissipates its aroma. A slight incurving is desirable.
Wine tasters never drink the wine they taste. They sip it, swish it about, gargle it, and then spit it out. Swallowing wine is believed to dull the palate, not to mention the brain.
The Hershey Foods Corporation can produce 33 million Hershey's Kisses in one day of production.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence, tinted bottles.
The highly seasoned stew of meat or fish called ragout (rhymes with “blue”) is prepared without vegetables. The name is derived from French and means “to restore the appetite of.”
You have to break a lot of eggs to serve breakfast in Las Vegas. At Caesars Palace alone, an average of 7,700 are prepared each day, with 2.8 million eggs delivered each year to that one resort. Caesars serves over 427 pounds of coffee each day and pours more than 3,000 ounces of orange juice every 24 hours.
The ice cream cone was introduced in 1904 at the St. Louis World Fair when a waffle vendor rolled waffles into the shape of a cone for an ice cream vendor at an adjoining booth.
You need approximately 2,000 berries to make one pound of coffee.
The Indians of the eastern U.S. had a particular liking for meats served with fruit sauces. The ripening of cranberries and the Thanksgiving holiday coincide, which is one reason why cranberry relish is traditionally served with roast turkey.
The Jack in the Box company introduced a series of fast-food “firsts,” including being the first chain to open a drive-thru restaurant. It was the first to offer the first chicken sandwich in the western United States and the industry's first breakfast sandwich and portable salad.
The Japanese adore beef, but cannot get enough because the country is too small for large-scale cattle raising. An exception are the cows of Kobe, who live the good life: they drink beer, are massaged three times a day to keep their meat tender, and are sung to, making them feel serene. Kobe beef is world-famous for its flavor, although chances of finding any outside Japan are almost nil. A few restaurants in the United States import the rare commodity, charging more than one hundred dollars for a 16-ounce, one-inch-thick steak.
The Japanese word for chef, itamae, literally means "in front of the cutting board."
The Jell-O company came out with a cola flavor gelatin for kids in 1942. It was discontinued the following year.
The Jerusalem artichoke is neither from Jerusalem nor is an artichoke. It's the knobby nut-brown tuber of a sunflower.
The kiwi was originally called the Chinese gooseberry.
A few years ago when McDonald’s wanted to open new restaurants in India, it had to eliminate the portion of its menu that Americans equate with the fast-food giant: hamburgers. Hindus, who make up a large portion of India’s population, consider the cow a sacred animal and its slaughter a sacrilege. Indian customers at McDonald's can instead order a “Maharaja Mac” — two all-lamb patties.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
A man named Ed Peterson was the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.
A one-pound bag of candy corn usually contains 294 kernels.
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