Do you know this dish peaks its popularity in 1950s when Italian immigrants started to serve this dish in Italian-American restaurants?

Do you know Boef Bourguignon was considered as the peasant food back in the Middle Ages?

There are lots of theories about where falafel originally come from. But it's believed falafel comes from Alexandria, Egypt in 1882 when British officers asked the Egyptians to recreate vegetable croquettes like the ones they ate in India.

Do you know Beef Stroganoff originally come from a French chef who worked for a Russian wealthy family and won a cooking contest in 1891? Later on, he named the dish after his employer name, Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov.

Do you know tagine has to be cooked in a conical lid to allows the steam to circulate during cooking? That's what makes this dish cooking unique compared to the other dishes.

Historically pierogi was considered peasant food but because of the taste, people from all classes in Europe started enjoying them. Pierogi is now considered as Poland's national dish.

Do you know Bobotie was imported to South Africa from Indonesia and brought by Indonesian-Malay slaves in the seventeenth century?

Do you know plov was invented by Alexander The Great when he was instructed his cooks to prepare a light but filling rice fish for his army?

Do you know haggis come from the technique of how old Romans preserving meat during the hunting season?

They used to chop up the meat, pour salt into it, wrapped it in the animal' s stomach and boiled it. Using this technique can make the meat stay longer for days.

Do you know jerk beef or chicken is actually a remnant dish from the era of slavery?

Do you know jollof rice originally come from the ancient Wolof Empire in 1300? Nowadays every west African country has at least one variation of jollof rice.