Few Japanese can use chopsticks as well as their parents, due in part to the popularity of Western cuisine. As a result, an increasing number of elementary schools in Japan are introducing chopstick etiquette into their programs. Traditionally young children are taught to distinguish left from right by teaching them that their right hand is the one they hold their chopsticks in, while their left is the one that holds the rice bowl.
Rhubarb is in the buckwheat family.
In Wilton, Maine, there is a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens.
Rice is the chief food for half the people in the world.
It is hard to manufacture butter from goats because the cream is dispersed in the milk.
Filet mignon is the most tender of all beef cuts. However, it lacks the flavor of porterhouse.
Rinse food products off knives immediately after use, especially mayonnaise, which is a highly corrosive substance. If staining should occur, use a non-abrasive polishing compound to remove it.
It takes approximately 190,400 pounds of milk to make 40,000 pounds of butter.
First manufactured in 1930, the SnickersŪ Bar is the number-one selling candy bar in the United States.
Risotto is typically served as a first course in Italy. It is said that the little grains tickle the tongue and bring the palate to life.
It takes one week to make jelly beans.
Five percent of people who frequent restaurants claim they eat out because they do not know how to cook.
It was reported that Napoleon carried chocolate with him on his military campaigns, and always ate it when he needed a boost of energy.
Flamingo tongues were a common delicacy at Roman feasts.
For many years, the fig has been used as a coffee substitute. The fruit contains a proteolytic enzyme that is considered an aid to digestion and is used by the pharmaceutical industry.
Burger KingŪ uses approximately 500,000 pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.
By deftly swinging, stretching, and doubling a fist-size lump of flour-and-water dough, a Chinese master noodle maker can create 2,048 strands of "long xu mian" - dragon's beard noodles - each as fine as a human hair. (This Chinese delicacy is deep fried and wrapped into thin pancakes)
By law, Bourbon must be produced in America, made from at least 51 percent corn, and made from a fermented sourmash of grains.
By the eighteenth century, apple pie had become so popular a dessert in America that Yale College served it every night at supper, and did so for more than a century.
Cabbage is 91 percent water.
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