No recipe today, instead I thought I’d share with you an interesting food story that I was reminded of the other day and always tickles:
We owe the French revolution for the greatness of French restaurant food - when all the aristocratic houses closed their doors as their owners heads rolled all the best chefs in the country were suddenly left without jobs and so many opened restaurants, forging ahead with excellent food fit for a king. It has taken us this long to catch up on their head start (pardon the pun).
A few other intersting food related musings:
- Almonds are a member of the peach family
- Apples are made of 25% air, that is why they float
- Cherries are a member of the rose family
- Corn always has an even number of ears
- Ten gallon hats only hold about 0.7 of a gallon (6 pints or 2.8 Litres)
- Pears ripen from the inside out - Which is probably why the little buggers go from rock hard to mushy in about 20 minutes (so long as your back is turned)
(thanks to www.arrowscientific.com.au/amazing-food-facts/interesting-facts-about-food.html for all the intersting food facts, except the restaurant one, that was passed to me many moons ago in a French history lesson).
In last week’s veg box were the small knobbly fists I have heard of but never tried, Jerusalem artichokes.