celebrating the victory over Pompey, Caesar made a feast on which 150,000 guests were placed over 22,000 tables.The holiday lasted 2 days.He also freed all the poor families in the Empire of the rent for a year.
Despite the frequent appearance of oranges on the famous works of the Renaissance, they have not eaten at the Last Supper, simply because they were not available.Returning Crusaders spoke about what they had seen oranges "in the holy land" that probably influenced by Titian, Botticelli and other artists.But this was more than 1,000 years after the crucifixion.At this time, citrus fruits were brought to the Mediterranean countries from China.
first cookbook was published in 62 AD Roman Apitsiusom.In a book titled "De Re Coquinaria" described the dishes, which enjoyed the Emperor Claudius.
said that Vitellus, former emperor of Rome in 69 AD, spent more than 1,200 pounds a day just on food.He could overpower the oysters a day in 1000, as well as countless other delicacies.After a short reign, he was deposed by the Roman citizens, outraged excesses of their emperor, and his body was thrown into the Tiber River.
Romans used poisonous lead as a sweetener.
When King John ascended the English throne in 1199, he rolled one of the most fantastic Christmas feasts.900 liters of different wines, 400 oxen, 1000, eels and lampreys 200 were absorbed his hungry guests.
word "honey" was used as a synonym for something pleasant ("like honey plastered," "honey life" ...) in ancient and medieval times, as other sweeteners in Europe at almost was not.Only in the 12th century there was the sugar when the Crusaders brought it with him from the East.
during archaeological excavations of ancient tombs was discovered edible honey.
Honey has been used in golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.
When ketchup was established in China in 1690, it did not contain tomatoes.It consisted of marinated fish, shellfish and spices.
At the end of the last century, books about nutrition contained typographical error.In indicator of iron content in spinach it was incorrectly placed decimal point, so the spinach to the records contained ten times more iron than it really is.Because iron is associated with power, this error was the basis of the famous cartoon: strongman Popeye ate spinach.
belief that carrots are good for the eyes, is not true.This statement is spread during the Second World War, when the British began to use onboard aircraft radars that allow them to find German bombs during the night.In order to mislead the Germans, it was rumored that John Cunningham, the most successful night bomber of the Royal Air Force, developed at a phenomenal night vision by eating carrots in large quantities.
Sauerkraut was invented in China.Shih Huang-Ti, the first emperor of China, cabbage soaked in wine and fed her slaves who worked on the Great Wall of China.
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