FIFINONO – a blog about cultural exploration

What happens when eggs meet tomatoes? Depends where they are in the world! Different cultures have their own recipes and we are about to find out! Let’s start with one of our favorite brunches –  Shakshuka! 1. Isreal: Shakshuka! We first make a bed of tomatoes, cooked with onion, garlic,…

History of Rice Based on archeological evidence, rice was believed to have first been domesticated in the region of the Yangtze River valley in China. Morphological studies of rice phytoliths from the Diaotonghuan archaeological site clearly show the transition from the collection of wild rice to the cultivation of domesticated…

History of skewers Evidence of the prehistoric use of skewers, as far back as the Lower Paleolithic, has been found at a 300,000-year-old site in Schöningen, Germany. A stick with a burnt tip was found to have been used to cook meat over a fire! The practice os roasting meat…

History of pancakes Pancakes have been around for a longggg time! Analyses of starch grains on 30,000-year-old grinding tools suggest that Stone Age cooks were making flour out of cattails and ferns. The result may have been a little different from the modern pancake, but the idea was the same: a…