These days, there are foodfestivals everywhere. If you are a true foodie like me, you certaintly have to go to these 14 most popular food festivals over the world.
1. Wildfoods Festival (Hokitika, New Zealand)
Over 50 stalls offering every element of wild food from glorious gourmet to feral feast! examples are : wild pork, sheep’s brains, sweetbreads …
2. Annual Golden Spurtle (Cairngorms, Scotland)
The Scots celebrate their superfood with a highly competitive festival at carrbridge, a village in the Cairngorms National Park.
3. The Onion Market (Bern, Switzerland)
there are 50-tons of onion braids, rings and single bulbs on display, but textiles, jewelry, ceramics and children’s toys are also on sale.
4. Watercress Festival (Hampshire, England)
This little festival celebrates the humble watercress; a versatile aquatic herb liberally used in traditional English cooking in soups, salads and sauces.
5. Salon de Chocolate (Quito, Ecuador)
Ecuador produces more high-quality chocolate than any other country
6. Bacon Festival (Sacramento, California)
California’s capital has raised its game for the foodie traveler with a festival focusing on everyone’s favorite: bacon. Bacon gelato, bacon salad, bacon ramen and bacon tater tots on offer, no wonder the festival is popular.
7. Blue Food Festival (Bloody Bay, Tobago)
This is a root plant of the taro variety, eaten in abundance in the Caribbean because it can be cultivated in flooded conditions.
8. PoutineFest (Ottawa, Canada)
traditional poutine, exotic and international flavors such as pad Thai poutine, butter chicken poutine, beef jerky, smoked salmon and pulled pork poutine.
9. Castagnades chestnut festival (Ardeche, France)
Chestnuts are an important ingredient in Ardeche cooking, ground into soups, added to stews or baked into a crisp flat cake called the Pisadou. The chestnutsare sold fresh, turned into confectionery as glazed “marron glaces,” converted into a brown flour and, this being France, brewed into a beer or a highly alcoholic liqueur.
10. Dumpling Festival (Hong Kong)
The zongzi dumplings consumed on this day in June consist of glutinous rice with different fillings wrapped in bamboo, lotus or banana leaves.
11. National Cherry Festival (Traverse City, Michigan)
there’s a weeklong cherry celebration in July offering pit-spitting competitions, pie-baking contests, a Grand Cherry Parade and the crowning of a Cherry Queen.
12. Pizzafest (Naples, Italy)
Every night during one week in September, Napoli’s Lungomare Caracciolo area becomes a pizza village with 500,000 visitors who consume more than 100,000 pizzas of every kind.
13. Vegetarian Festival (Phuket, Thailand)
eating veggie for nine days. It might seem as though it’s the same carnivore-friendly dishes on restaurant menus, but the cooks use soybean and protein substitute products instead of meat.
14. Herring Festival (Hvide Sande, Denmark)
It’s the Denmark’s biggest angling competition wich takes place , the last weekend of April in Hvide Sande, when the herrings migrate to the area. It’s the biggest herring festival in the country, where visitors come to eat some of the best fried herrings , fish cakes and other herring-based dishes, or attend various fishing classes and workshops.
Many people think that diet a medicine is . Many nutrients in food promote health and protect your body from disease. Your body only needs small amounts of vitamins and minerals, they’re vital for your health. The protein and fat in whole, nutritious foods play various critical roles in your body. Following a healthy diet can increase longevity, protect against disease, and improve your overall quality of life. Although many foods have strong disease-fighting benefits, diet should not be considered a replacement for conventional medicine.
There are now millions of people who spend more time watching food being cooked on television than they spend actually cooking it themselves. watching someone else cook is a lot easier than actually cooking. Better still, watching gives you a vague feeling of participation that suffices for the real activity. You don’t even need to get up off your couch. There’s only a fixed amount of time in a day, right? So if you squander an hour in front of the tube , that’s an hour stolen from your day that you could have spent… cooking
this article is about how cooking made us human. ‘The cooking hypthesis’ proposes that our brain became significantly larger than our ancestor’s because of cooking with fire. This change occurred with Homo erectus because they were the first to learn how to tame and cook with fire. There were changes in anatomy, physiology, ecology, life history, psychology and society because of cooking with fire. Considering this change, less energy was spent in digesting foods and instead was diverted toward the expansion of the brain.
It is that time of the year again. Christmas is coming all over the world. Every country has its own dishes that contribute to this wonderful spirit, so we picked our favorite top 10 to help you decide where to go this Christmas!
1. Panettone
An Italian type of sweet bread made with raisins, citron, pine nuts and anise.
2. Yule Log
Yule Log is a popular French cake in the shape of a log. It’s made with sponge cake, meringue mushrooms and pine leaves.
3. Kerststollen
One of the trademarks in the Netherlands is “Kerst stol”. It’s a bread with nuts, spices and dried fruits coated with powdered or icing sugar.
4. Speculoos
What is Christmas without crispy, spice cookies? One of the most famous comes from Belgium. Speculoos or speculaas are spiced crispy biscuits made from cinnamon and brown sugar.
5. Gingerbread House
Is there anything more exciting, than eating a house made out of gingerbread? In Germany the whole family engages in making the best Gingerbread House.
6. Plum pudding
Plum pudding is a traditional dessert in England, but it surprisingly doesn’t contain plums. It is made out of dried fruits, egg and a often black treacle.
7. Turrón
Turrón is one of the various sweets from Spain. It is a nougat made of honey, sugar, egg white, toasted almonds or some other nuts.
8. Olivier salad (Russian salad)
This is a unique salad from Russia. The main ingredients include diced boiled potatoes, carrots and eggs, chopped pickle
9. Smörgåsbord
Smörgåsbord or Swedish buffet has a very strong meaning and tradition in Sweden. Things you can usually find there are cured salmon and variety of fish, bread, ham, meatballs, pork ribs, cabbage, cheese, …
10. Mulled Wine
Mulled wine is better known as Glühwein all over Europe. Many cannot imagine the cold winter days without a cup of Mulled Wine. The recipes can vary depending on the country.
An authentic pancake recipe to make the best pancakes ever.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted
Directions:
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and melted butter; mix until smooth.
Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.
