Invented in the 1940’s due to a shortage of milk, this curious combination quickly embedded itself into Hanoi’s coffee culture. It is even starting to spread across the country! To try this local speciality head toGiang Cafeon Nguyen Huu Huan Street. This is the home of the original egg...
Tortilla chips were invented in Los Angeles in the 1940s at a tortilla factory as a way to make the most of the rejected tortillas. To simplify, let’s assume totopos are tortilla chips. Nachos Nachos are tortilla chips covered in melted cheese and sliced jalapeno chillies, and sometimes ...
Enrique Bastate Gutierrez boasted that he invented the drink in the 1940s as a tribute to actress, Rita Hayworth, whose real name was Margarita Cansino. Still another unfounded tale connects the drink to an earlier time when Hayworth (who was the daughter of Flamenco dancers) was performing ...
1922: First chimichangas are invented Canva 1922: First chimichangas are invented El Charro Cafe, the oldest Mexican restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, invented the chimichanga in 1922. The deep-fried burrito was created by accident when founder Monica Flin plunged a burrito into bubbling fat, creatin...
El Charro Cafe, the oldest Mexican restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, invented the chimichanga in 1922. The deep-fried burrito was created by accident when founder Monica Flin plunged a burrito into bubbling fat, creating a delicious mistake many have enjoyed ever since. 1923: Mars releases Milky Wa...
"You're not going to want to miss the food since it's all quality," said Janousek. "Real meat, real dairy in our ice cream. There's nothing phony that you get elsewhere." Fun BizFun Biz only serves certified Angus beef that's locally raised for all of its items, including its slo...
The sweet and sour baked chicken with prunes and olives was actually invented in New York City by Jewish chef and entrepreneur Sheila Lukins. The dish seems like your average roast chicken at first glance. Peek inside and you’ll find an unconventional ingredient that gets most tongu...
—(Headline) The New York Times, 29 Jan. 1947 Béchamel Definition - a white sauce sometimes enriched with cream The thick white sauce was invented by, and thus named after, Louis de Béchamel, a French courtier who served in the court of Louis XIV. Béchamel died in 1703, but it did...
In an exciting business development, an Upstate New York company has recently acquired a significant portion of the Green Giant food business. Get our free mobile app Seneca Foods Corp, based in Fairport outside Rochester, finalized the purchase of Green Giant's shelf-stable food business from ...
National food, von Bremzen shows, is never a simple question of geography or history. Food, she writes, carries the “emotional charge of a flag or an anthem”. Many national foods are invented to serve political purposes. Consider pad Thai, which was decreed the national street food of Th...