This chocolate bar, by Cadbury's, was invented in 1920, and represented the start of a revolution in the creation of bars of chocolate. It is a small, long bar of stalactites of milk chocolate, impossible to eat neatly as the stalactites cascade into your lap as you eat. It has been accompanied by a long series of advertisements of a suggestive nature in which young women feel the bar with their tongues, sweeping off the hanging bits before they disappear down their plunging necklines.
This chocolate bar, by Cadbury's, was invented in 1928. It is a milk chocolate bar containing sultanas or currants and nuts.
A moist, white semihard cow’s milk cheese with a crumbly, springy texture, originally from Wales. Its slightly salty flavour is caused by the cheese being soaked in brine. The flavour is not unlike Cheshire, but the texture is different. It is always described as a miners' cheese. The texture means that it does not fall apart or dry up in the atmosphere of the mines, and its height makes it easy for the miners to hold. The saltiness compensates for the salt lost by the men sweating down the pits and it is easily digestible. Traditionally this cheese is lightly pressed, put in brine for a day and then rubbed in rice flour.
Caesar salad is said to have been invented by Caesar Cardini, an American chef who moved to Tijuana during Prohibition, although it is popularly thought to have come from Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. It is a salad of romaine leaves, decorated with halved hard boiled eggs and coated with an emulsified dressing of anchovies, oil, egg and hot seasoning. We were intrigued to go to Caesar's Palace and to find multiple moving walkways which drew you inexorably into the casino. Whilst it was easy enough to find your way in, it was almost impossible to find your way out.
The Caesar's mushroom is a type of amanite which grows on lower hills among chestnut groves, this is a variety of mushroom with a bright orange cap and golden yellow gills and stalk. The flesh is also pale yellow. It is from the same family as the death cap, ripening in summer and early autumn (US: fall) and liking a hot, dry environment. It is a versatile mushroom, excellent raw in salads or grilled, stuffed or used as a garnish. A rare mushroom, which when tiny looks like an opened hard-boiled egg, the bright yellow cap forming what looks like a yolk. (If gathering mushrooms you must be absolutely certain what you have before you eat them as many are very poisonous.)
In many parts of the world, the cafeteria, shortened to café, is a stylish or comfortable place to have a cup of coffee or a light meal. In others these are great big, high-ceilinged self-service eateries, often serving not very interesting food, cheaply.
