Did You Know 17?

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Jul 11th 2006 @ 4:07PM

Did you know that -

three new interspecific hybrid grape varieties were launched this week - Noiret and Corot Noir, which are red, and Valvin Muscat, which is a white variety. [details]
Mackerel is a common North Atlantic and Mediterranean fish with brilliant 'metallic' green, blue and black colourings. This brazen display accounts for its name being used in the past to describe a dandy gentleman in England, and in French its name 'maquereau' also means a pimp. (from the BBC)
that the Iberico pig (used for Spanish pata negra ham) puts away 11kg of acorns every day they are in season
apparently eating a few rounds of Marmite and toast makes your skin emite an odour that acts as an effect mosquito repellant. (Don't actually think this one has been scientifically proved)
the earlist recorded recipe for a cheese tart (for-runner of cheesecake) appeared in 1390 in the first English cookery book 'Forme of Cury'
Cury being the Old English word for cooking, derived from the French cuire meaning to cook, boil or grill