Category Archives: HOW?
307.HOW DID RESTAURANTS START?
You may think that the chief reason for cooking food is to make it taste better. Actually, the changes cooking produces in food help us to digest it better. Cooking food also guards our health, because the heat destroys parasites and bacteria which might cause us harm.
No matter how good mother’s cooking is, we like to go out to a restaurant sometimes (if we can afford it). It’s not just because there’s different food to eat, but we also enjoy the “going out.”
306.HOW DID FRUITS AND VEGETABLES GET THEIR NAMES?
The name of everything we come in contact with has an origin, and sometimes it’s quite surprising to discover how certain names began. Take a name like gooseberry, for example. It has nothing to do with geese! It was originally gorseberry. In Saxon, gorst from which “gorse” is derived, meant “rough.” And this berry has this name because it grows on a rough or thorny shrub! Raspberry comes from the German verb raspen, which means to rub together or rub as with a file. The marks on this berry were thought to resemble a file.
305.HOW DID EATING UTENSILS ORIGINATE?
The way man eats is considered one of the signs of his civilization. And since very earliest times man has created various utensils to make his eating habits more civilized.
Some kind of spoon-like implement, for example, probably existed back in the Stone Age. We know that thousands of years ago spoons of wood, stone, and ivory were used by the Egyptians. The Greeks and Romans used spoons of bronze and silver, and some of them were the products of master craftsmen and very beautiful. During the Middle Ages spoons were made of bone, wood, and tin, while the wealthy had elaborate spoons of beaten silver.
