By submerging a wine bottle or beer in ice water the temperature will drop much faster than if one places it in a fridge or even the freeze

Humans can t digest the cellulose in celery which has about 6 calories per stalk the energy used in the effort is greater than calories ingested

The combination of the salt from the tequila and the sweetness from fruit juice can give you a wicked hangover while drinking the cocktail Margarita

In fourth century Sparta in Greece males 20 years of age and over were required by law to eat 2 pounds of meat a day It was believed to make one brave

A cocktail of gin and vermouth is called a Gibson if it has an onion in it A cocktail of gin and vermouth is called a martini if it has an olive in it

The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings Rice can in fact be grown in drained areas

Honey is the only food that does not spoil Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and it was found to be edible

Pistachios are high in fat and low in water content As a result they are prone to self-heating and even spontaneous combustion when shipped in bulk containers

There are no KFCs in Tibet in part because the Dalai Lama wrote them a letter explaining how the mass slaughter of chickens violated Tibet s traditional values

The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the containe

Truffles or mushrooms that grow below the ground are one of the world s most expensive foods One variety Tuber melanosporum can cost between 800 and 1 500 a pound

The heart of a peanut that little nub that holds the two halves together contains a high amount of a chemical that is know to cause migraine headaches in some people

Fruits are actually the ovaries of flowers In botany a fruit is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower mainly one or more ovaries

Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum They were a mocking response to a patron who complained that his French fries were too thick

A bar in London sells vaporized vodka which is inhaled instead of sipped The Alcoholic Architecture bar can be found in Ganton Street the Newburgh Quarter Central London