wehre did the red onion originate?
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Egypt I think.  Apparently early Eqyptians were very partial to onions.  HOwever, they were also grown in China  and India.  They like to grow where the hours of daylight are relatively long, so as you move further away from the equator they were more likely to be grown.  Onions often grow wild.  \n\nI hope this is of some help, but it is a bit difficlt to find info specifically on red onions.
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Excellent question... you actually made me look for the answer in Wikipedia. \n\n"In 1891, Karl Elsener, then owner of a company that made surgical equipment discovered (to his dismay) that the pocket knives supplied to the Swiss Army were in fact made in Germany. Outraged, he founded the Association of Swiss Master Cutlers. Its goal was simple: Swiss knives for the Swiss Army.\n\nElsener began working on what was the predecessor to the modern Swiss Army knife, called the "Soldier's Knife". The original had a wooden handle (as opposed to the plastic and metal seen today), and featured a blade, a screwdriver, a can opener, and a punch. This knife was sold to the Swiss army, but Elsener was not satisfied with its first incarnation. In 1896, after 5 years of hard work, Elsener managed to put blades on both sides of the handle using a special spring mechanism, allowing him to use the same spring to hold them in place, an innovation at the time. This allowed Elsener to put twice as many features on the knife; he added a second blade and a corkscrew."\n\nInteresting. It appear that Elsener, through his company Victorinox, was indeed the inventor of the Swiss Army Knife.
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The phrase originally came from Moretum, a poem attributed to Virgil though the actual author is unknown. Moretum is a type of salad, the poem closes with a list of the ingredients which are ground in a pestle.[citation needed] The line reads, color est e pluribus unus which refers to the combining of many ingredients to make the one of soerm per dish.
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German for rat poison. Came from Germany. Most probably after Germans started speaking German language.
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The German Christmas Pickle Tradition
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Fanciful stories of how the pastry was created are modern culinary legends. These include tales that it was invented in Vienna in 1683 to celebrate the defeat of the Turkish siege of the city, as a reference to the crescents on the Turkish flags, when bakers staying up all night heard the tunneling operation and gave the alarm; tales linking croissants with the kifli and the siege of Buda in 1686; and those detailing Marie Antoinette's hankering after a Viennese specialty. Alan Davidson, editor of the Oxford Companion to Food states that no printed recipe for the present-day croissant appears in any French recipe book before the early 20th century; the earliest French reference to a croissant he found was among the "fantasy or luxury breads" in Payen's Des substances alimentaires, 1853.\n\nThe "Siege of Vienna" story seems to owe its wide diffusion to Alfred Gottschalk, who wrote about the croissant for the first edition of the Larousse Gastronomique (1938). Gottschalk first cited the legend about the Turkish attack on Budapest in 1686, in the "history of food" section in the same work, he opted for the "siege of Vienna in 1683" version; compare the cappuccino legend.
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In 400 BCE, Persians invented ice cream. The ancestor of the cookie is said to have come from Persia. The first windmill had vertical shafts and were reportedly built in Persia around the 7th century AD. \n\nAlcohol was invented (for medical uses) by Razi the Persian scientist. Algebra(Jabr as you said) was invented by Khwarizmi and Khayyam, both Persians.
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gelb=yellow, erbsen=peas,eintopf=hotpot, mit=with, fleischbrühe=meat broth (=>hotpot with meat broth)
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It was coined from it's inventor, the  Fourth Earl of Sandwich.  He was an avid gambler, and didn't want to be bothered by eating, so informed his servant when dinner came about one day to take the meat and place it between two slices of bread.  Thus the sandwich was born.  The real question is if everything invented is the best thing since sliced bread, what was the best thing before slcied bread?
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From the American Heritage Dictionary:\n\nTrade with the Low Countries across the North Sea was important to England in the later Middle Ages, and it is perhaps because of this trade that we have the word pickle. Middle English pikel, the ancestor of our word, is first recorded around 1400 with the meaning "a spicy sauce or gravy served with meat or fowl." This is a different sense from the one the word brings to mind now, but it is somewhat related in sense to its possible Middle Dutch source pekel, a solution, such as spiced brine, for preserving and flavoring food. After coming into English the word pickle expanded its sense range in several ways. It was applied, as it had been in Middle Dutch, to a pickling solution. Later pickle was used to refer to something so treated, such as a cucumber. The word also took on a figurative sense, "a troublesome situation," perhaps under the influence of a similar Dutch usage in the phrase in de pekel zitten, "sit in the pickle," and iemand in de pekel laten zitten, "let someone sit in the pickle."
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Take a sheet and wear a toga when you hand in the paper\n\nThe Romans were avid partiers and cuisine started in ancient Rome
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http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
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"Who chose cake?"\n\nIt's exact etymology is unclear but this much is certain: the British coined the phrase. \n\n"The first documented appearance of the term is in 1943, in an small book of British military slang, although sources claim it was used in the RAF throughout World War Two, and was originally a Yorkshire dialect term in use at least since 1914."
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klicken Sie Anfang-> Bedienungsfeld-> regional und Sprachen, klicken Sie auf dem Fall unten Menü, dann wählen Sie Englisch aus! Glück
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I assume you mean a mediaeval chef, not a middle-aged one!  I assume also you mean "food" by "material".  Thick slices of bread were used as plates, called "trenchers".  Honey was used for sweetening, and many spices, which were expensive at the time, were used to flavour food - particularly in the case of meat that had gone off due to no refridgeration.  The rich would eat all types of meat and fish, many of which we would not consider today, like swan or peacock; the poor were left with vegetables.  There are many books you can read to discover the way people cooked and ate in mediaeval times.
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Yes, while it can be said that sHitler was a vegetarian (although this is disputed since he "cheated" often), he was also a f'n madman. Why would anyone use him as a prime example of anything execept insanity and hatred? There are many better examples of vegtarians out there, and there are far more Mohandas Ghandis, Leonardo di Vincis, Leo Tolstoys and Albert Einsteins (yep, all vegetarians) than Adolf Hitlers in the "history book" of vegetarianism.
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From the below article:\n\nFor also in the 1840s, pomme frites ("fried potatoes") first appeared in Paris. Sadly, we don't know the name of the ingenious chef who first sliced the potato into long slender pieces and fried them. But they were immediately popular, and were sold on the streets of Paris by push-cart vendors.