The tiny Italian town that drinks like Ancient Rome and Greece Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH/Alamy The town that drinks like Ancient Rome and Greece Arquà Petrarca is known as the final resting place of a Renaissance patriarch – and the source of a fabled liquor whose name means "to live in bliss", made from the jujube fruit. Arquà Petrarca, …
Shandong province farmer Hou Nianying has had a busy winter, with orders for special steamed buns known as bobo increasing as the Lunar New Year approached. The 59-year-old, who lives in Weihai's Wendeng district, said many people bought tiger-shaped bobo for their children in the hope they would be as vigorous as tigers this year. Women make bobo steamed buns …
A peculiar custom popular in Bengal prohibits the eating of kul, or ber, before Saraswati Puja. In some Bengali homes, where it is so mandated, whole kul is an essential ingredient for the gota sheddho—a hearty hodgepodge of seasonal vegetables like baby potatoes, tender spinach tips, sweet potatoes, baby brinjals, whole green pea pods, tender flat beans etc are boiled …
