Long, long ago

What's your Favorite Food???

When someone asks you what your favorite dish is and why, you have a long background story to narrate. Sometimes it could be the dish that your loved ones cooked for you for the first time or for one’s own self. Some dishes become our favorites just because your mom cooks it for you, some family secret family recipe. Like our stories some foods had a story while some foods created a story.

Are you ready to find out the stories of these foods? Who knows you might have your favorite food here or you might make one after reading these.

Carrots

Can you believe it if we say that carrots were originally purple in colour and had white thin roots. Yes, as per the National Carrot Museum in the UK carrots are not what they seem to be today. The carrots that are available now are a result of a successful genetic mutation that happened in the 16th century.

Tomatoes

In the 1800's it was believed that tomatoes had medicinal value which could cure indigestion and diarrhea. The recipe turned out to be ketchup which was eventually made into a pill.

Ice cream

This is not exactly ice cream but about popsicles. Yes, the famous story of the accidental invention of popsicles.  An 11 year old boy called Frank left his soda and water mixture outside overnight and it froze. When he ate it he liked it and he started to sell it in the summers on Neptune Beach in San Francisco. Though called it Epsicle when he invented it in 1905 over the years his children started calling it Pop’s sicle or famously known as popsicle.

Bananas

Right from banana bread to banana caramel shake, bananas are consumed in numerous ways. How many of you know that most of the bananas that are available are actually clones? Yes most of the bananas available in the market are genetic clones of the Cavendish variety. These are produced on a large scale as they are the preferred ones because they are seedless which is a desirable trait for the consumers. Nowadays agricultural scientists have been worried that bananas drop down to vulnerable threat and extinction due to lack of genetic diversity.

Nutmeg

Those who have watched or read Nancy Drew and the hidden staircase might have already understood this one. Nutmeg might be a flawless partner for our recipes. Did you know that too much nutmeg that is approximately two tablespoons of this spice can cause a hallucinating effect on you. Right from dizziness to sluggish brain activity. So count your spoons while using it.

Here is a bonus one. Right from chilli peppers to chilli flakes, they are used to spice up our food. What if you think that they aren’t actually spicy. The sensation is actually caused by a compound called capsaicin. This makes you think that the food is spicy and makes a person buzzed and high at times.

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Happy Reading!!!

Happy Cooking!!!

-Team Annam