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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 ...
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" .
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
Amvrosy (Russian: Амвро́сий) is a Russian Christian [1] male first name. [2] It is derived from Greek ambrosios, meaning (belonging to) immortal(s), god-like; [2] cf. ambrosia, food of gods. [3] Abrosim (Абро́сим) is a colloquial variant of this first name. [2]
Food for Thought/Take It Back consists of Gray Matter's remastered material that combines, in its entirety, the 1985 Food for Thought studio album [nb 1] [1] [2] and the six-song 1986 Take It Back EP; [nb 2] plus three bonus tracks: two previously unreleased demo recordings, and the first version of "Walk the Line", originally featured on Alive & Kicking, a various artists 7-inch EP compiled ...
Ambrosia artemisiifolia is an annual plant that emerges in late spring. It propagates mainly by rhizomes, [clarification needed] but also by seed. [4] It is much-branched, and grows up to 70 centimetres (2.3 ft) in height. [9] The pinnately divided soft and hairy leaves are 3–12 centimetres (1.2–4.7 in) long. [9]