Today is Thursday, and that means today you eat Yellow split pea soup and pancakes, if you live in Sweden anyways. The tradition of eating yellow split pea soup goes all the way back to the middle ages. It is thought that the soup was eaten on a Thursday as a hearty and fulfilling dish [...]
The Lamington can be traced all the way back to around 1900, how and why it came to be is wrapped up in so many theories that there’s a whole book about it, The Lamington Enigma: A survey of the evidence, written by Maurice French, a professor of history at the University of Southern Queensland. [...]
It’s funny, there’s been plenty of times I’ve gone 6 weeks without a takeaway and thought nothing of it, but having them all close and know you can’t get one, well it just makes you sad. First world problems even in a pandemic. And although more are opening, hopefully safely and responsibly, living out in [...]
As well as being delicious it is packed full of health benefits, and with its long history, miso soup is more than just a dish, it’s very much a part of Japanese culture, and it is said, to eat miso soup is to be Japanese. The history of this dish goes back to ancient times. [...]
How it then became spaghetti alla puttanesca furthers this dishes mystery. As the word puttana means whore in Italian, many believe it came from the brothels and the woman that “worked the night shift" during World War II, being that it was a quick and easy dish to put together between “obligations”. However, others believe [...]
