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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 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]
During last-minute menu planning, I often include this classic ambrosia salad recipe because I keep the ingredients on hand. —Judi Bringegar, Liberty, North Carolina Get Recipe
21. "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."." — W.C. Fields. 22. "The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude."
The mythological White Hare from Chinese mythology, brewing the elixir of life on the Moon. The elixir of life (Medieval Latin: elixir vitae), also known as elixir of immortality, is a potion that supposedly grants the drinker eternal life and/or eternal youth.
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