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Ambrosia is an American variety of fruit salad originating in the Southern United States. [1] Most ambrosia recipes contain canned (often sweetened) or fresh pineapple , canned mandarin orange slices or fresh orange sections, miniature marshmallows , [ 2 ] and coconut . [ 3 ]
Ambrosia is a brand of food products in the United Kingdom. Its original product was a dried milk powder for infants, but it is now mostly known for its custard and rice pudding . The brand plays on the fact that it is made in Devon , England, (at a factory in Lifton ), with their punning strapline "Devon knows how they make it so creamy" .
The use of the word "cocktail" in the name does not mean that it contains alcohol, but refers to the secondary definition: " an appetizer made by combining pieces of food, such as fruit or seafood". In the United States, the USDA stipulates that canned "fruit cocktail" must contain a certain percentage distribution of pears , grapes, cherries ...
Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, nectar.The two terms may not have originally been distinguished; [6] though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods; it was with ambrosia that Hera "cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh", [7] and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, [8] so that when she ...
Jul. 7—Last week's heat, besides making me itchy, grumpy and anxious about my veggies charbroiling on the vine, had me thinking about a classic potluck dish called ambrosia. I made a beeline for ...
Ambrosia, a fictional war-torn nation in the imagination of the protagonist in the film Billy Liar; Ambrosia, a fictional vaccine to the pandemic known as the "Gray Death" in the computer game Deus Ex; Ambrosia, a fictional lost kingdom in the film Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva; Ambrosia, a fictional drug in the novel Library of Souls
'Ambrosia' harvest is mid to late season. Trees are hardy and no major disadvantages have yet been identified. [2] [3] These apples flower in mid to late season, and are in flower group 4. [clarification needed] [4] Ambrosia is most common in British Columbia, where it was discovered, and is the third most-produced apple in the province.
A paragraph (from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos) 'to write beside') is a self-contained unit of discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. Though not required by the orthographic conventions of any language with a writing system , paragraphs are a conventional means of organizing extended segments of prose .