As its name indicates, stone ground mustard is made with mustard seeds that are ground using a stone. Specifically, a millstone is used to grind brown mustard seeds to produce stone-ground mustard. The use of the millstone to produce a …
Spicy brown mustard is made from mustard seeds that originated in India like all the other mustards, but the prepared mustard made with those seeds has its roots in Germany. Mustard has been popular in Germany since the Middle Ages …
Honey mustard refers to the combination of mustard and honey. The pairing of these two ingredients has been around since Ancient Egypt. There is no documentation of when the two were first combined. Historians believe that the honey was first …
Yellow mustard is made from mustard seeds that have been used for food since the time of the Ancient Sumerians and Egyptians. However, this spice is best known for its association with Ancient Rome. The Romans were particularly fond of …
Marmite is a British institution but it was invented by a German named Justus Liebig. Liebig was a chemist who discovered that the process of brewing beer left yeast that could be made into a healthy paste with a high …
Vegemite is an Australian spread made from brewer’s yeast and that is strongly connected with the island continent’s identity. Vegemite showed up on Australia’s grocery store shelves in 1923. Its inventor was Dr. Cyril P. Callister, a food technologist who …
Chinese mustard is a condiment made with brown mustard seeds, which come from a variety of mustard plant called Brassica juncea. It is a relative of the plant that gives us black mustard, called Brassica nigra and the plant that …
Avocado is a member of the laurel family, which also provides us with bay leaves and cinnamon. Botanically speaking, the avocado fruit is considered a berry. There is archaeological evidence of wild avocados being gathered and consumed 10,000 years ago …