Although Asia and the Mediterranean are the original regions where mustard grew, most of the world's mustard today is cultivated in Canada and the United States.
Although Italy enjoys many variations of tomato sauce, none has more than five ingredients.
Although the combination of chile peppers and oregano for seasoning has been traced to the ancient Aztecs, the present blend is said to be the invention of early Texans. Chili powder today is typically a blend of dried chiles, garlic powder, red peppers, oregano, and cumin.
American Indians were cultivating strawberries in 1643. They crushed the strawberries into a mortar, mixing them with meal to make a strawberry bread.
American tourists are usually surprised to learn about Italy's prosperous rice industry, as pasta and olives are thought of more readily. Rice has been known in Italy since Roman times, though it did not become really popular until the 1400s. Today Italy produces more rice than any other country in Europe. Only Russia exceeds Italy’s rice production
Americans consume more than 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
Chicago, Illinois is the candy capital of the world. Chicago has more chocolate manufacturers within a small radius than any other place in the world. This dates back to the 1800's when Chicago was a national hub for transportation and manufacturing, in addition to being very close to sources for key candy ingredients -- milk and corn syrup, it was also convenient to ship candy products to either coast from Chicago.
Chicken á la King, a dish of diced chicken in a cream and sherry sauce, was originally chicken á la Keene, and only later was corrupted to suggest a royal provenance. Several parties lay claim to the dish's name origin, the most prevalent being London's Claridge's Hotel claim that the Keene in question was equestrian J. R. Keene and said its chef had created the dish to memorialize his 1881 Grand Prix victory.
Chicken drumsticks have a lower ratio of meat to bone and skin than the other parts of a chicken.
Chicken feet are an extremely popular dim sum dish in Asia. Not surprisingly, they aren't popular with Americans. Simply prepared, chicken feet are cooked in a black-bean sauce. The proper way to eat them is to put the entire foot in one’s mouth, suck off the meat, and spit out the bones
Chicken mole can be made with a range of complicated sauces, often including many kinds of chiles plus unsweetened chocolate. “Mole,” pronounced MO-lay, meant “concoction” in the Aztec language
Chili is the official state dish of Texas
Chips Ahoy! cookies are baked in ovens which are as long as a football field. Over 4,000 cookies exit the oven each minute.
Chocolate can be lethal to dogs. Theobromine, an ingredient that stimulates the cardiac muscle and the central nervous system, causes chocolate's toxicity. As little as two ounces of milk chocolate can be poisonous for a 10-pound puppy
Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenylethylamine, that your brain produces when you fall in love. But don't have too much — an excess of phenylethylamine makes people very nervous
Chocolate contains two types of stimulants: caffeine and the alkaloid theobromine, purine.
Americans eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety in the United States is the Red Delicious
Americans eat less than one serving of fruit and only 1˝ servings of vegetables per day. About 45 percent reported eating no fruit in a day, and one in nine said they didn't eat either fruit or vegetables
Americans purchase an average of 100 cans of Campbell's Soup every second of every day in the month of January
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this — pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet
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