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January 10th, 2010
Published in Society
by Christina Kolyva
Having grown up in a country with 300 days of sunshine per year, I find that I have to use my imagination a lot more than the average English person to develop pronto survival mechanisms of coping with the rainy English weather when it is not possible to take time off to travel. My latest discovery is a culinary escape-route. No, not via overeating! After coming across Pythagoras’s [...]
July 11th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Opinioni, Opinions, Society
by Christina Kolyva
The use of spices in medieval Europe was so profuse and different from our culinary habits, that with today’s standards the idea of a household consuming pounds of spices every day is enough to make us sneeze and choke on the amount of aroma and flavour such condimental quantity would involve. Yes, in those days they did have large households, but also very different gourmet concepts! Medieval [...]
June 21st, 2009
Published in Attualità, Opinioni, Society
by Christina Kolyva
Tea as a drink is the aromatic herbal beverage made by combining the processed leaves of the tea bush Camellia Sinensis with hot or boiling water. Therefore, strictly speaking, herbal, flower or fruit-based infusions are not teas, unless they also contain leaves of the tea bush. There are two primary varieties of the Camellia Sinensis plant, the Sinensis variety, indigenous to the Yunnan [...]