Food Habits around the world

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07
Favorite foods: fried potatoes with onions, bacon and herring, fried noodles with eggs and cheese, pizza, vanilla pudding

United States: The Revis family of North Carolina
Food expenditure for one week: $341.98
Favorite foods : Spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken

Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City
Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $317.25
Favorite foods: sashimi, fruit, cake, potato chips

Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11
Favorite foods: fish, pasta with ragu, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks

Great Britain : The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis
Food expenditure for one week: 155.54 British Pounds or $253.15
Favorite foods: avocado, mayonnaise sandwich, prawn cocktail,
chocolate fudge cake with cream

Kuwait: The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City
Food expenditure for one week: 63.63 dinar or $221.45
Family recipe: Chicken biryani with basmati rice

Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09
Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken

China: The Dong family of Beijing
Food expenditure for one week : 1,233.76 Yuan or $155.06
Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce

Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27
Family recipe: Pig's knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips

United States: The Caven family of California
Food expenditure for one week: $159.18
Favorite foods: beef stew, berry yogurt sundae, clam chowder, ice cream

Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
Family recipe: Okra and mutton

Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar
Food expenditure for one week: 41,985.85 togrogs or $40.02
Family recipe: Mutton dumplings

Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo
Food expenditure for one week : $31.55
Family recipe: Potato soup with cabbage

Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village
Food expenditure for one week : 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese and pork

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
Favorite foods : soup with fresh sheep meat

(Via Ashima Chander)

How to boil potatoes in 2 minutes

I'm pretty excited about this! I learnt that you can boil potatoes in 2 minutes. No more waiting endlessly (and anxiously) in front of the cooker. Or put off making the vegetable because of the time it takes to cook.

Just peel, cut, cover (not immerse) with water and microwave for 2 minutes. Voila perfect potatoes!

Luxury Cooking

Pot à la Fissler and Harrods:
timeless luxury for £100,000

Fissler, the leader on the German market for premium cookware, is setting new standards of luxury with a unique product: a pot adorned with gold and diamonds from Fissler will be presented to the exclusive clientele of the London department store Harrods from the 10th of September until the 20th of October. This true gem will be exclusively produced to order and will cost £100,000.

Technically, the diamond pot is based on a saucepan of 28 cm in diameter from the successful premium series 'original profi collection®' by Fissler. The handles on the lid and sides as well as the name logo are made from almost one kilogram of solid gold (750/yellow gold) and are studded with more than 200 diamonds (TWSI) of varying sizes.

The breathtaking one-off originals will be crafted lovingly by hand in Idar-Oberstein/Germany. This town in Rhineland Palatinate is well-known as the home of Fissler, the international leaders and experts in cookware, and has, for centuries, enjoyed a global reputation in the design of precious stones and jewellery for the most exclusive clientele all around the world.

The product will be presented in accordance with its unusual characteristics: the diamond pot will be showcased at Harrods on a special presentation pedestal made of rootwood. The diamond pot will come complete with a high-class jewellery box made of rootwood. A document and the appropriate quality certificate guarantee additional exclusive quality for the buyer.

With the diamond pot, Fissler will be presenting what is probably the most precious pot in the world. An application for inclusion in the book of Guinness World Records has already been submitted.

Via Ashima Chander

Beautiful Food

(Via AgyBanks)

Glocalization!

INDIA
In India, there are no Big Macs because the Hindu people don't eat beef.
However, they have the Maharaja Mac, which is a Big Mac made of lamb or
chicken meat. There is also a vegetarian burger, the McAloo Tikki.
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NORWAY
In fish-loving Norway, they have the McLaks, a sandwich made of grilled
salmon and dill sauce.

GERMANY
It's bottoms up in Germany, where McDonald's serves - Beer!

CANADA
In parts of Canada, have a lobster dinner with the McLobster lobster roll.
Pardon me - "McHomard" (in French).

JAPAN
Japan totally reinvents McDonald's with its Ebi Filet-O (shrimp burgers),
Koroke Burger (mashed potato, cabbage and katsu sauce, all in a sandwich),
Ebi-Chiki (shrimp nuggets) and Green Tea-flavored milkshake!

CHILE
In Chile, you can dress your burgers with - not ketchup - avocado paste!

COSTA RICA
In Costa Rica, unsurprisingly, you can order Gallo Pinto, meaning rice and
beans.

GREECE
It's not Greek without pita, so when in Greece, have a Greek Mac, a burger
made of patties wrapped in pita.

HONG KONG
Rice-loving Hong Kong, has - of course - Rice Burgers, where the burgers
are in between, not burger buns, but two patties of glutinous rice.

ISRAEL
In Israel, McDonald's has 3 kosher restaurants where cheeseburger and dairy
products are not served because Jewish Law forbids serving "the child
[cow/beef] in its mother's milk [dairy]." They have McShawarma, meat in a
pita bread roll.

URUGUAY
In Uruguay, they have the McHuevo, which is like a regular hamburger, but
it is topped with a poached egg.

(Via AgyBanks)