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The Indian thali: a balanced tray that tells a regional story and a way of eating together
World - World food culture - Thali is not the name of one dish but a way of arranging several portions on a single tray. Rice or bread, dal, vegetables, something sour, yoghurt and a sweet create a rhythm of changing flavours; ..
- 12/10/2026
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Danish smørrebrød: the open sandwich and the art of composing a lunch
World - World food culture - Smørrebrød begins with a slice of bread, usually rye, but what goes on top can make a lunch of many layers of flavour. The way the order is chosen, the ingredients combined and the whole thing eaten ..
- 11/10/2026
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Swiss raclette: melted cheese and a shared table in the cold season
World - World food culture - Raclette is both the name of a cheese and the name of a method: heating it, then scraping the melted layer onto potatoes and whatever is served alongside. What makes a raclette meal so well loved is ..
- 06/10/2026
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Injera in Ethiopia and Eritrea: the shared platter that binds a community
World - World food culture - Injera is at once a fermented flatbread, the base that holds the stews and the tool for bringing food to your mouth. On the shared platter of Ethiopia and Eritrea, its spongy, lightly sour surface s ..
- 04/10/2026
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Italian aperitivo: the pause at the end of the day, between a drink and a conversation
World - World food culture - Aperitivo is not simply a happy hour. In many Italian cities it is the passage from work into the evening, when a drink alongside a few small dishes and a conversation slows the day's rhythm down. O ..
- 01/10/2026
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West African jollof: a pot of red rice, memories of home and a proud argument
World - World food culture - Jollof is a pot of orange-red rice fragrant with tomato, onion, chilli and spices, and at the same time the subject of lively arguments between West African countries. Behind the question of whose v ..
- 26/09/2026
- 4,725
Mexican corn and the tortilla: how nixtamalisation feeds an entire cuisine
World - World food culture - In Mexico, corn is not only an ingredient but a farming calendar, an indigenous memory and the foundation of a whole range of dishes. Nixtamalisation — cooking and steeping the kernels in an alkalin ..
- 26/09/2026
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Yum cha in Hong Kong: drinking tea, eating dim sum and keeping the rhythm of morning meetings
World - World food culture - Yum cha means, plainly enough, going out for tea, but the experience has long included baskets of dim sum, the sound of conversation and the rhythm of families and friends meeting. The meal is remem ..
- 21/09/2026
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Mezze culture in the eastern Mediterranean: when the table becomes a space for sharing
World - World food culture - Mezze is a way of eating built from many small plates set in the middle of the table, where the conversation and everyone's presence matter as much as the food. From hummus and dressed vegetables to ..
- 19/09/2026
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Top 10 Outstanding Dishes of Zhejiang, China
World - World food culture - Zhejiang is located on the coast, a land of green mountains and blue waters, rich in natural resources, also known as the "land of fish and rice. " The local people place great importance on their d ..
- 15/09/2026
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Japanese washoku: a philosophy of the seasons and the art of balance at the table
World - World food culture - Washoku is not simply a list of familiar Japanese dishes. It is a way of watching the seasons, choosing ingredients, combining colours and arranging a meal so that it feels harmonious. A tray that l ..
- 15/09/2026
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The Voynich Manuscript: A 600-year-old book no one can read
World - Mysteries & the bizarre - More than a century after Wilfrid Voynich brought the book to the antiquarian book market, the writing system in the manuscript remains undeciphered by any method accepted by experts.Beinecke MS 408 ..
- 14/09/2026
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The Wow! Signal: 72 Seconds That Kept Humanity Listening to the Cosmos for Half a Century
World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On the night of August 15, 1977, the Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio recorded a narrow, powerful signal near the 21 cm hydrogen line. It lasted for only a single 72-second scan, then never reappeare ..
- 14/09/2026
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Tunguska 1908: What Exploded in the Skies Over Siberia?
World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On the morning of June 30, 1908, a streak of light tore through the Siberian sky and exploded over the taiga near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. The shock wave flattened trees across more than 2,0 ..
- 14/09/2026
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UVB-76: The Mysterious Buzzing Sound Broadcast for Decades on 4625 kHz
World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On 4625 kHz, an intermittent buzzing sound has repeated day after day since at least the early 1980s. Occasionally, the channel marker stops, a Russian voice reads out a call sign, code words, and n ..
- 14/09/2026
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The Hessdalen Lights: Strange Orbs Continue to Appear Over a Norwegian Valley
World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In Norway’s cold and sparsely populated Hessdalen valley, people report white, yellow, or red lights that sometimes hover motionless and sometimes streak across the sky. A wave of sightings in the e ..
- 13/09/2026
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The Phaistos Disc and the 241 Mysterious Symbols of the Minoan Civilization
World - Mysteries & the bizarre - A small clay disc found at the palace of Phaistos bears 241 tokens stamped in a spiral, but the text is too short and there is almost no comparative material. Archaeologist Luigi Pernier discovered ..
- 13/09/2026
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Bloop: The colossal sound under the Pacific and the answer from Antarctic ice
World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In 1997, hydrophones spaced more than 3,000 km apart across the Pacific Ocean recorded a very low-frequency sound so powerful that it was given its own name: Bloop. When the sped-up recording was po ..
- 13/09/2026
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Upsweep: the rising tone still echoing across the Pacific
World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Ever since NOAA gained access to the SOSUS hydroacoustic data in 1991, listening stations across the Pacific have been recording trains of pulses a few seconds long whose pitch sweeps upward. The so ..
- 13/09/2026
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