Olé, olé, olé olive oil #2
Posted on 12. May, 2010 by Marina in Food & Drink
Here’s part two of our Tremendous Trivia mini-series on olive oil: The most common grades of olive oil as defined by the IOOC are: 1. Extra virgin Any olive oil with less than 1% acidity and produced by the first ‘pressing’ without using heat or chemicals (aka cold press) is classified as Extra Virgin. There [...]
Olé, olé, olé olive oil #1
Posted on 11. May, 2010 by Marina in Food & Drink
These days, most people have cottoned on to the fact that olive oil is way better for us than normal oil. Sunflower oil is out. Here is the first half of a two part Tremendous Trivia dedicated to our liquid gold friend – l’huile d’olive. A bit of history: the first cultivation of olives began [...]
Milk. It rocks.
Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Marina in Food & Drink
There are some things life just wouldn’t be the same without. Milk is one such thing, and the topic of today’s Tremendous Trivia. Milk is the first thing you ever drink (unless there is a serious mix-up at the hospital). Humans are the only mammals that continue to drink milk after infancy, which is a [...]
The salt of the earth is actually salt.
Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Marina in Food & Drink
Welcome to the next installment of Tremendous Trivia. Today, we look at good old NaCl (salt). It is widely believed that troops in the early Roman army in 500 BC were paid in salt. That isn’t true, so lots of people out there are believing a lie. But salt does have over 14,000 uses, and [...]
