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O SABOR DE MINAS GERAIS
Percorrer as trilhas e os caminhos atravessados pelos mineiros para chegar às mineirices e mineiridades atuais requer que conheçamos as encruzilhadas e os descaminhos das Gerais. O que nos leva,...
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EARLY AGRICULTURE IN CHINA
The Dawn of Domesticated GrainIn China, at the same time, men and women were domesticating rice and millets, developing the first farming systems, and probably experimenting with other early farming...
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FOOD IN EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY
Food plays an important role in the liturgical, ritual, canonical, and dogmatic life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Throughout the ages, Orthodoxy—from the Greek orthós (correct) and dóxa (belief)—has...
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FOOD IN WESTERN CHRISTIANITY
Christianity traces its origins to the life and preaching of Jesus, a Jew living in Palestine in the first century of the Common Era (C.E.). He taught that all humans are children of God and need to...
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MEALTIMES
To examine mealtimes is to raise the question of what constitutes a meal, and to note that they obey cultural and social as well as biological rules.To most people in the western world, the rhythm of...
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DRY-FERMENTED SAUSAGES AND RIPENED MEATS
1. INTRODUCTIONDrying and smoking were probably the first food-preservation techniques to be developed, in ancient Greece and Rome (Zeuthen, 2007). In fact, the names “sausage” and “salami” probably...
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BRAZIL - EATING AND DRINKING
The CuisineBrazilian cuisine comes in many regional varieties but the one truly national dish is feijoada, a blackbean stew that originated with African slaves who used leftovers to make a tasty meal....
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CHEESE, RELIGION, AND THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION
The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day... So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get...
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HISTÓRIA ADMINISTRATIVA DE BARRETOS
Barretos na década de 1960Leopoldo CostaAté 14 de janeiro de 1625 a região onde hoje se localiza o município de Barretos fazia parte do município de Santana do Parnaiba (que na data foi desmembrado do...
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PAIRING WINES WITH MEATS AND POULTRY
The go-to rule is red wine with meat, but what sort of red, and what sort of meat? And if the meat has a sauce, what happens then? It’s not as simple as it appears at first glance, but it’s not really...
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HISTÓRIA DA MARCA "APPLE"
Alguém poderia imaginar que uma maçã, antes colorida e agora prateada, se tornaria mais famosa que a fruta que representa a cidade de Nova York ou a maçã, que é símbolo dos discos dos Beatles? Com...
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ANIMAL IN THE ANCIENT WORLD - COW
(Greek: (bous); Latin: (bos )There are currently about 800 breeds of modern cattle, generally divided into the western Bos taurus and the eastern B. indicus (Bradley and Magee, 317). All western modern...
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TRADITIONAL CHINESE FOODS
Painting "Abundance & Harvests in Successive Years",There is a saying, the reason that great differences exist between eating habits of various regions of the world is the result of a multitude of...
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FOOD MYTHS AND MISINFORMATION
Without food, medicine as we know it today might never have been born, for until early in the 18th century health treatments were largely based on myths.The Papyrus Ebers, written about 1550 B.C., on...
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ESTRADAS REAIS DO BRASIL COLONIAL
Texto de Leopoldo CostaNa colonização e exploração do território brasileiro, a Coroa Portuguesa autorizava a abertura de "Estradas Reais". Eram caminhos oficiais controlados pela Coroa, mediante a...
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BLACK DEATH - THE TERRIFYING TRUE STORY
The terrifying true story of the outbreak that crippled the worldAfter enjoying generations of sunshine and warmer climes, Europe had undergone an unprecedented population boom that saw more people...
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ALIMENTAZIONE - RICETTE CHE PIACEVANO IN PASSATO
Interiora, pidocchi, cicale... Dalle cavallette fritte di Aristotele al garum dei Romani, passando per i parassiti dei Burgundi, le ricette che piacevano in passato, e che a noi oggi farebbero...
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SUMMARY OF FOOD AND DRINK ACROSS HISTORY
Since the dawn of the human race, food and drink have kept us alive, but how has what we put into our bodies changed throughout history?STONE AGE HUNTING AND GATHERING (30.000 BCE)The appearance of...
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LO NATURAL PUEDE MATARTE...
Lo natural puede matarte y lo artificial te ayuda a sobrevivir. Porque un adulto nacido en un país rico evita a menudo la muerte gracias a los avances médicos, químicos o alimentarios que ciertas...
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WHEN BEANS AND CHICKPEAS WERE HAILED AS FOODS OF LUST
Four centuries ago, flatulent foods such as beans and chickpeas were hailed as a cure for a flagging libido.This understanding drew upon the medical idea that sexual desire and pleasure were...
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