Food Items and Ingredients

Food is any substance, usually composed primarily of carbohydrates, fats, water and/or proteins, that can be eaten or drunk by a human for nutrition or pleasure. Items considered food may be sourced from plants, animals or other categories such as fungus or fermented products like alcohol. Although many human cultures sought food items through hunting and gathering, today most cultures use farming, ranching, and fishing, with hunting, foraging and other methods of a local nature included but playing a minor role.

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Food Facts

• ...that in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Venezuela, countries where Italian cuisine is especially popular, gnocchi (known as ñoquis in Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela or nhoque in Brazil) are traditionally eaten on the 29th day of each month? This was the day before payday, when people were at their poorest.
• ...that Baileys Irish Cream was the first liqueur to use cream and alcohol together in a manner sufficiently stable to allow commercial distribution?
• ...that settlements across the Indus Valley Civilization were the first to have an oven within each mud-brick house by 3200 BC?
• ...that the blackberry is known to contain polyphenol antioxidants, naturally occurring chemicals that can upregulate certain beneficial metabolic processes in mammals?
• ...that Burger King's first restaurant, originally called Insta Burger King, was opened on December 4, 1954 in a suburb of Miami, Florida by James McLamore and David Edgerton who were both alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration?