Pig is good. And perhaps the most popular part of it is so beliked that it’s traded as a commodity on itself at the Chicago Commodity Exchange. I am of course talking about the pork belly, the main ingredient in bacon. Right? Well… It turns out when I say
Swedes drink a lot of julmust for Christmas, a sweet soft drink resembling root beer. The same beverage is also served for Eastern, under the name påskmust. These “musts” are so popular in Sweden that the consumption of Coca Cola drops by 50% when julmust/påskmust is in the shelves.
When I was a child, I would hunt for chocolate eggs in the garden for hours. I left childhood a long time ago. However, I haven’t quit on sweets and chocolate. Heretofore, my parents would buy me a Maxi Kinder Surprise every year for Easter. But since I moved
In 2011, Philadelphia cream cheese arrived in France. Loudly advertised, the French population was apparently thrilled to finally be able to prepare cheesecakes or to simple spread some cream cheese on a piece of bread. Novelty, right? Wrong. All the fuss surrounding Philadelphia’s arrival seemed widely overdone. For when
Vacherin (from the french word vache meaning cow) is a soft spreadable cheese commonly found in France and Switzerland. The Swiss variety is called Vacherin Mont d’Or, and the French usually known simply as Mont d’Or. Well, then there’s the harder variety called Vacherin Fribourgeois, but that’