Archives for Gastronomy
Chocolate History Time Line
For over 3000 years, Chocolate…like gold, has had a universal appeal 2000 BC, Amazon: Cocoa, from which chocolate is created, is said to have originated in the Amazon at least…
Cider History
from Societe Volcler, Normandy cider maker Antiquity: We know that the Hebrews drank "Shekar" and the Greeks "Sikera" (a drink obtained by cooking apples with fermented juice). Before the Christian…
A history of Coffee
'Ah how sweet coffee tastes ! lovelier than a thousand kisses , sweeter far than muskatel wine ! I must have ' Johann Sebastian Bach ,1732 Coffee Cantata. Revolutions,fortunes and…
Pizza History
Pizza, like so many other foods, did not originate in the country for which it is now famous. Unless you have researched the subject, you, like so many people, probably…
Tea travels (TM) It’s tea time
By Ellen Easton and Reva Paul Over the past one hundred and fifty plus years, Afternoon tea has taken on many different incarnations. While the original traditions of the day,…
Wine History
Wine's roots can be traced back to 1993. At the time several forces were converging that made running Windows applications appealing. Microsoft had successfully steered its Windows program to the…
Lithuania braces for possible beer monopoly
Lithuania braces for possible beer monopoly VILNIUS/COPENHAGEN - One Danish acquisition could see the three largest Lithuanian brewers under one roof. Carlsberg, which owns the Klaipeda-based Svyturys brewery, wants to…
History of Beer in Lithuania
Reprinted, with permission from Vytis - The Knight Written by Stephany Gutauskas Editor's Note: The article begins with a history of beer, but I wanted to include only that part…
History of Beer
Brewing is almost certainly the most ancient manufacturing art known to man, and is probably as old as agriculture. Beer is also as old as bread - in fact it…
Did Jesus turn water into beer?
Did people worry that the spoken word would die when the cleverest among them started to make pictograms on clay tablets? I wonder. The written word has in my lifetime…
How Bert Grant Saved The World
Bold beers were the perfect weapon Never before was there such a selection of beer-styles in the English-speaking world. Nor is it likely that there were ever such assertive flavors…
Canadian Beer History
Recognizing a plentiful supply of beer close at hand would keep money in the country instead of purchasing liquor from France and would promote the consumption of the abundance of…
Looking for the King of Beers…
...in the lagering cellars of Budapest, Hungary The fathers of modern lager beer, Gabriel Sedlmayr II and Anton Dreher Sr, are gaining new recognition - not in Germany or Austria,…
Estonian, Finnish…and Orcadian
The are few feelings better than suddenly finding a drinking vessel in one's hand. Is it really necessary to wonder how the vessel arrived there? Not really, but to drink…
AB Utenos Gerimai
People need beer just as they need bread. Lithuanians have been brewing beer since the 9th century. Many brewers in Aukstaitija, the northeastern part of Lithuania, have kept their recipes…
From Leeds to Lithuania for mushy pea beer
Does a lager brewed in part from peas constitute a style? As a small boy on the way to visit my grandparents, I rode the Leeds trains and puzzled over…