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  2. List of European cuisines - Wikipedia

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    A cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, [ 1] often associated with a specific culture. European cuisine refers collectively to the cuisines of Europe. [ 2] European cuisine includes cuisines of Europe, but can arguably also include non- indigenous cuisines of North America, Australasia, Oceania, and Latin ...

  3. List of foods named after places - Wikipedia

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    Allahabadi cake — the city of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, north India. Bandel cheese — the city of Bandel, West Bengal. Bombay duck — fish dish named after the city of Bombay. Chicken Chettinad — the region of Chettinad, Tamil Nadu. Hyderabadi Biryani — the city Hyderabad and erstwhile Hyderabad State.

  4. Medieval cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Medieval cuisine. Peasants sharing a simple meal of bread and drink; Livre du roi Modus et de la reine Ratio, 14th century. Medieval cuisine includes foods, eating habits, and cooking methods of various European cultures during the Middle Ages, which lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. During this period, diets and cooking changed less ...

  5. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers. Dav Pilkey. George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth graders, use a homemade time machine to travel 65 million years into the past. They also travel to 206,784 years in the past and 30 years in the future.

  6. List of Germanic deities - Wikipedia

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    List of Germanic deities. A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia ( Emil Doepler, 1905) In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses ...

  7. European cuisine - Wikipedia

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    European cuisine (also known as Continental cuisine) comprises the cuisines originating from the various countries of Europe. [ 1] The cuisines of European countries are diverse, although some common characteristics distinguish them from those of other regions. [ 2] Compared to traditional cooking of East Asia, meat holds a more prominent and ...

  8. Bird migration - Wikipedia

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    Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year. It is typically from north to south or from south to north. Migration is inherently risky, due to predation and mortality. The Arctic tern holds the long-distance migration record for birds, travelling between Arctic breeding grounds ...

  9. Tomato - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish first introduced tomatoes to Europe, where they became used in Spanish food. In France, Italy and northern Europe, the tomato was initially grown as an ornamental plant. It was regarded with suspicion as a food because botanists recognized it as a nightshade, a relative of the poisonous belladonna. [3]