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Do you like ice cream, I know everyone love ice cream especially me. But did you know that no one really knows who invented ice cream. It probably was created in a number of places around the world at various times in history. Some expert believes these were popular thousand years ago. Around 200 B.C. in china packing it in snow solidified a soft mixture of milk and rice. The Roman Emperor Nero enjoyed mixture of fruit crushed with snow and honey and Alexander the Great sent runners to the mountain to bring back snow so he could have a wine-flavored ice. When Marco Polo returned to Europe from his travel, he brought with him a recipe for tasty ice and milk dessert. These desserts became popular among the rich, and royal chef’s kept working to improve the recipe. These recipes were closely guarded secrets for many years. After ice cream was introduce with the colonies, many of our country founders become ice cream addict like Thomas Jefferson, gorge Washington and Dolley Madison. The first ice cream plant was opened at United State century and half ago. The owner would never have believed that today annual ice cream sales in this country are over 3 billion.

Not all pepper is hot. Like for example paprika, pimiento and bell pepper are not hot. However, pepper such as chili, palapeno and habanero are very hot. These pepper contains capsaicin, which stimulates the nerve endings in the mouth and makes the brain believe it is experiencing true heat. Eating hot pepper can also make the eyes water and the nose run and can induce perspiration. To counteract the pain, the brain releases morphine like endorphins that create a mild euphoria, similar to a runner high because of this pepper can be slightly addictive. Pure capsaicin is so hot that if you dilute a single drop in 100,000 drops of water and then sip the water, it will blister your tongue. Another interesting trait of capsaicin is that, unlike ginger or mustard, it can desensitize one to pain if small amount are eaten repeatedly or if a large amount is eaten all at once. This is why chili lovers can eat progressively hotter peppers and foods. When you burn your mouth by eating a hot pepper, the typical reaction is to drink water or milk. This won’t help at all. Capsaicin will dissolve in water and drinking a liquid only spread the capsaicin more until your whole mouth is burning. To alleviate burning, many people recommend sour cream or yogurt because the casein in these products breaks down the bond between the capsaicin and the pain receptors in your mouth. The most effective method found to relieve the burning sensation is to take a level of spoon of sugar, moisten it with some water and then roll it around in your mouth for half minute.

Did you know that the hottest pepper ever tested was at Red Savin habanero grown in 1994? It was an amazing 577,000 Scoville units; almost double that of a typical habanero. Next to salt, peppers are the most popular seasoning in the world. Cancer patients often suffer painful mouth sores when under going chemotherapy. Researchers at Yale university school of medicine have found that a candy made of hot peppers and taffy relieves the pain. The capsaicin found in peppers has been found to be an anticoagulant. Anticoagulants tend to reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke caused by blood clots. Peppers are rich source of vitamins C; green bell peppers have twice as much C as citrus. A hot pepper contains 3.5 times as much vitamin C as an orange. Resident of the US territory of Guam consume, more Tabasco sauce per capita than any other group pf people in the world. Capsaicin is not evenly distributed throughout a pepper so it’s quit likely that one part of the pepper might be hotter than another part.

Did you know that the earliest cookies were made in seventeenth-century in Persia (now Iran)? Which was one the first countries that produce sugar? The word cookies however come from the Dutch word “koekje”. It is pronounce “kook-yah” and means a little cake.

The Germans called cookies “keks” and the Italian call them “biscotti”. One of the most popular cookies on the United State is the chocolate chip cookie. Most people don’t realize that it is a relatively modern cookie. Cookie is accidentally made by semisweet chocolate bars and mixed up with the dough, the chocolate mixed together with the dough resulting in all chocolate cookie. But the chocolate didn’t mixed with the dough and turn the baked cookies full of broken chocolates pieces. Thanks to Ruth Wakefield who accidentally made the cookies and she named her new creation “Toll House Cookies”.

How to persuade your child to eat is start with serve slightly less than you think the child is going to eat. This gives the child the advantage of feeling successful even to the point of asking for a second helping. Do not force any thing in your child.

It is always easy to change the food than to change the child. Mostly children have keener sense of taste and smell than adults and those under six usually like mild-flavored foods. And don’t forget children are not gourmets. They are not venturesome regarding foods. In general, children prefer uncomplicated foods. It was found that stew in which vegetables and meat were ground and cooked together is more popular among young children than separate pieces of vegetables and meat. They also appreciate some crisp foods in a meal for reason other than to hear the sound associated with the chewing of crisp-crunchy foods. And lastly children specially dislike stiff or even slightly gummy texture in starchy foods. As a rule, children do not eat dry foods easily.