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  2. Potato chip - Wikipedia

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    An advertisement for Smith's Potato Crisps Since 2010, air frying has become a popular alternative to deep frying, including the preparations of homemade potato chips. In an idea originated by the Smiths Potato Crisps Company Ltd, formed in 1920, Frank Smith packaged his chips in greaseproof paper bags and attached a twist of salt, and sold ...

  3. History of bread - Wikipedia

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    In ancient times the Greek bread was barley bread: Solon declared that wheat bread might only be baked for feast days. By the 5th century BC, bread could be purchased in Athens from a baker's shop, and in Rome, Greek bakers appeared in the 2nd century BC, as Hellenized Asia Minor was added to Roman dominion as the province of Asia ; [ 19 ] the ...

  4. History of the potato - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, maize (which also yielded far more calories per acre than wheat) proved more popular than the potato in the hotter climates of Portugal, Spain, Italy, and southern France, first being grown in Spain around 1525 and becoming a common part of the peasant diet by the 17th century. [36]

  5. Croissant - Wikipedia

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    A croissant (UK: / ˈ k r w ʌ s ɒ̃, ˈ k r w æ s ɒ̃ /, [1] US: / k r ə ˈ s ɒ n t, k r w ɑː ˈ s ɒ̃ /; French: ⓘ) is a French pastry made from puff pastry in a crescent shape. [2]It is a buttery, flaky, viennoiserie pastry inspired by the shape of the Austrian kipferl, but using the French yeast-leavened laminated dough. [3]

  6. Food history - Wikipedia

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    Food history is an interdisciplinary field that examines the history and the cultural, economic, environmental, and sociological impacts of food and human nutrition.It is considered distinct from the more traditional field of culinary history, which focuses on the origin and recreation of specific recipes.

  7. List of ancient dishes - Wikipedia

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    Beer is recorded in the written history of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt and is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages. [75]Kykeon was a common beverage of sustenance in ancient Greece, most often consisting mainly of a barley gruel mixture with various additives, sometimes written as having psychoactive properties associated with religious visions.

  8. Timeline of food - Wikipedia

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    Their 15,000-year age challenges the accepted view that rice cultivation originated in China about 12,000 years ago. [11] These findings were received by academia with strong skepticism, [ 12 ] and the results and their publicizing has been cited as being driven by a combination of nationalist and regional interests.

  9. Walkers (snack foods) - Wikipedia

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    It started frying its crisps in "SunSeed" oil, as claiming the oil is higher in monounsaturated fat content than the standard sunflower oil which it had used previously, [39] establishing its own sunflower farms in Ukraine and Spain to be able to produce sufficient quantities of the oil. Walkers updated its packaging style in June 2007, moving ...