Why so precious Asian products in Europe in the Middle Ages?
More frequent exchanges with Asia began Europe.Europeans transformed use spices like ginger and nutmeg to PERSERVER and people of taste in food.The nations of Europe demanded Asian products
There is the answer in your details. Spices, preserve and flavor food. Given a lack of refrigeration, salt or spices was only way to preserve food, or at least allow to swallow things that has been partially spoiled.
Fruit and nuts market stall, Istanbul, Turkey. This stall is in the Spice Bazaar, a market area that is one of the oldest in the city, dating back to 1660. It is sometimes called the Egyptian Bazaar because spices were imported here from Egypt. This stall is selling dried fruits and nuts and sweets…..
A wafer cookie with nougat cream filling covered in luscious milk chocolate. Nougat gives you the great flavor of hazelnut cream. Each package contains ten sticks of these delicious treats imported from Frankfurt, Germany! For best results, keep cool and dry and enjoy the light and crispy taste….
Kinder Chocolate is not complete without Kinder Happy Hippo which is a cookie-wafer bar with creamy milk and nut filling. There are 10 Packages. Each Package contains 5 Kinder Happy Hippo Cacao bars. Total of 50 bars. Made in Germany….
Who is not a fan of current ability based US immigration policy?
Who isn’t a big fan of the current policy of ability-based legal immigration? I feel that we allow the rich into this country, but no longer the poor. I feel that the rich Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Europeans do not blend in with our culture and refuse to become part of the melting pot of American society. It is the poor who blend in, who share their culture with other Americans, who share their food with other Americans, who take the time and energy to learn what being American is all about. This is why we eat Italian food, celebrate Hanukkah, and party on St. Patrick’s day. How do you all feel about this?
You are misinformed. After WW2 America benefited from the european brain drain in which thousands of proffessionals immigrated to the US to escape socialism. These people were go getters that did not clog up our safety net. Now there are strict limits on such proffessionals but no limits on uneducated people walking across our southern border.
Global warming: Poor old Paul mccartney has been duped – Paul Nuttall MEP
Familiar as we are with the horrific history of Nazi medicine and science, it may come as a surprise to learn that the Nazi war against cancer was the most aggressive in the world. Robert N. Proctor’s thought-provoking book, The Nazi War on Cancer recounts this little-known story. The Nazis were very concerned about protecting the health of the “Volk.” Cancer was seen as a growing threat–…
Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace—particularly poorer women—on German domestic and even military policy during World War I.As Britain’s wartime blockade of goods to Central Europe increasingly squeezed the German food supply, public protests led by “women of little…
Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as “completely unprintable, ” and indeed its premiere in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors playing a succession…
