Originally known simply as rolled oat biscuits (rather like oatcakes), these are made from a simple recipe of oats, golden syrup and coconut. At the beginning of the First World War, women in Australia and New Zealand began baking huge numbers and shipping them off to the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army […]
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From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books – Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo: Have you ever wondered where your Margherita, Melba, Suzette or Eggs Benedict come from? This is the fantastic history and origins of your favourite foods
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Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and writer, a key figure in the development of modern French cuisine. In the 1880s, he formed a partnership with the equally celebrated César Ritz (founder of the Ritz Hotel in London), the two of them being called upon by Richard D’Oyly Carte (see sole Véronique) to
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Steak tartare is made from minced, ground or finely chopped meat – chiefly beef but also venison and, in some countries, horse meat. Sometimes it is cut into strips and beaten until flat, then marinated, chilled and served raw, often with an equally raw egg yolk on top. It’s most likely that the dish gets
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Albert Jack AUDIOBOOKS available for download here Money for Old Rope: The Big Book of Everything Buy Now Audio Books Other Platforms The Things That Your Teachers Didn’t Know, or Didn’t Want You to Know. When you find a person Three Sheets to the Wind they are roaring drunk and capable of
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Back in 1994 a Norwegian by the name of Trygve Bauge was found to be living illegally in the small town of Nederland in Colorado, seventeen miles west of the city of Boulder. State officials soon deported Bauge back to his hometown of Oslo in Norway and locals began discussing the popular Norwegian and his
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A White Elephant is an expression used to describe something that has, or will, become a huge burden to those who possess it. It suggests the cost of possession could ruin a person financially. For this we travel to Thailand, in the days when it was known as Siam. According to the legend white elephants
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Bob’s your Uncle is often used to describe something that is resolved in your favour without much effort such as ‘Just send the form in and Bob’s your uncle’. The phrase was in regular use in England from the 1890’s and comes from the promotion in 1886 of Arthur Balfour to Secretary of State for
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