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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" .
In New Zealand, ambrosia refers to a similar dish made with whipped cream, yogurt, fresh, canned or frozen berries, and chocolate chips or marshmallows loosely combined into a pudding. The earliest known mention of the salad is in the 1867 cookbook Dixie Cookery by Maria Massey Barringer. [1] [5] The name references the food of the Greek gods. [6]
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
The title is in reference to ambrosia, the mythical food of the ancient Greek gods and the brand name of the controversial food product discussed in this story. The title could also be seen as a tribute to the novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells.
D'Ambrosio is a patronymic surname originating in Italy, meaning the son of Ambrosio. Ambrosio meaning divine, from the Latin Ambrosius and subsequently from the ancient Greek Ambrosia, the food of the gods and an elxir of life used by the gods of Olympus to maintain immortality and to heal wounds.
A sattvic diet is a type of plant-based diet within Ayurveda [1] where food is divided into what is defined as three yogic qualities known as sattva. [2] In this system of dietary classification, foods that decrease the energy of the body are considered tamasic , while those that increase the energy of the body are considered rajasic .