The trees which grow cacao can live for an impressive 200 years! However, the plants only create viable beans for making chocolate for just twenty years of their lifespan.
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Not all delicacies are universally appetizing. Birds nest soup is a popular dish in parts of China, with the key ingredient being unique bird saliva. Yum! It is believed this dish has healing properties and makes the consumer virile and strong.
Many dishes traditionally thought to be Indian have their roots elsewhere. Vindaloo, for instance, has Portuguese origins. The sweet, nourishing chai tea? A Chinese invention! It was enjoyed by the Chinese as a medicinal drink, then brought by the British to the Indian subcontinent. It’s crazy popularity today only began in the 1950s!
Getting onto ‘Jeopardy!’ is no easy feat. There is a better chance of writing a ‘New York Times’ bestseller (one in 220) than competing on the show (0.4% chance). So, unless you’re one of the lucky ones, you might have to start writing that novel before you warm up the buzzer in your hand!
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Not all delicacies are universally appetizing. Birds nest soup is a popular dish in parts of China, with the key ingredient being unique bird saliva. Yum! It is believed this dish has healing properties and makes the consumer virile and strong.
Many dishes traditionally thought to be Indian have their roots elsewhere. Vindaloo, for instance, has Portuguese origins. The sweet, nourishing chai tea? A Chinese invention! It was enjoyed by the Chinese as a medicinal drink, then brought by the British to the Indian subcontinent. It’s crazy popularity today only began in the 1950s!
Getting onto ‘Jeopardy!’ is no easy feat. There is a better chance of writing a ‘New York Times’ bestseller (one in 220) than competing on the show (0.4% chance). So, unless you’re one of the lucky ones, you might have to start writing that novel before you warm up the buzzer in your hand!
The lychee was first cultivated in southern China, and was a popular delicacy in the Chinese Imperial Court. It made this impression on a European traveler in 1585: “They haue a kinde of plummes, that they doo call lechias, that are of an exceeding gallant tast, and neuer hurteth any body, although they shoulde eate a great number of them.”
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