How many times have you been at gatherings and all sort of interesting questions arise, such as which was first, the chicken or the egg?

Here are some interesting facts about food, beverages and recipes. They do not answer the question about the chicken but you’ll be amazed how knowledgeable you will feel once you’ve read them all.  

Why do we use utensils to eat our food instead of fingers and daggers? Because Catherine de Medici brought with her, when she married Prince Henry of France in 1533 (he became King Henry in 1547), forks and several master cooks. She also introduced spinach, aspics, sweetbreads, artichoke hearts, truffles, ice cream and zabagliones.

Sweetbreads are neither sweet nor bread. This is a dish made up of the pancreas or the thymus gland of a calf or lamb.

Truffles, a fungus, grow below ground and are one of the world’s most expensive foods costing $800-$1,000 per pound. They are harvested by female pigs that sniff them out of the ground...