Glossary F

RULES FOR EATING CHOCOLATE

* If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

* Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

* The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car.

The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.

* Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite and you'll eat less.

* If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge.

* Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.

* If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet?

Don't they actually counteract each other?

* Money talks. Chocolate sings.

* Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger.

* Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

* A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?

* If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?

Starting today, I will not just be adding new words to the Glossary, but I will be adding pictures of my journeys and all pictures I made relating to food . In 2012, I was so blessed enough to visit the United States (Houston, Sugarland and San Antonio, Texas), Copenhagen, Denmark; Malmö, Sweden and Amsterdam, The Netherlands and in 2013, I was able to visit 2 states of southern India, Tamil Nadu (Chennai) and Kerala (Allepey, etc) and spent almost 5 months in my home country, the Philippines. During those trips, I tried my best to make as many photos as I can of all things related to food and food pictures and I want to just add them to our website. Some of the pictures are not clear enough, but I will try as much as I can to describe what the picture shows.

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Teas in Mongolia are categorized by color type. There are three (3) of such color categorizations: (1) Red Tea that the Han Chinese drink is referred to as black tea and it is enjoyed in Mongolia. (2) Yellow Tea is Jasmine tea They drink Jasmine tea and call it yellow tea. (3) Blue Tea - are Brick teas which are called blue teas. Some say, that the Blue Tea or Brick tea is the most popular type, because of the convenience in carrying it around. However, nowadays, most brick teas used by Mongolians come from India. Tea drinking is natural and important in Mongolia. Tea beverages such as Milk Tea are very popular. Tea is consumed at each of the three main meals every day. Tea is served to guests. It is the beverage of choice at all snack times and used whenever someone is thirsty. In addition to regular tea, flowers, leaves, and stems of some locally grown plants are also used to make teas and other beverages. Milk Tea which is also referred to as Mongolian Tea is the most important beverage used by the Mongolians and their shepherds. To make milk tea, brick tea is crushed into pieces then boiled for three (3) minutes with water. While boiling, it is constantly stirred. Fresh milk is slowly added to this tea in proportions of one (1) part milk to three (3) to six (6) parts water. A little salt is sometimes added. Milk tea can be served with some fried millet in it.

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In Korea, most grilled dishes can be identifed by the suffix "gui"at the end of the food name. When you see the a food name on the menu or a recipe with a suffix "gui" it means that the food is grilled or roasted, as in Kalbi-Gui or Dak-Gui which means Grilled beef and Grilled Chicken,respectively. These days, however, most Korean resturants omit the suffix, as in Kalbi instead of Kalbi-Gui. Just note, however, that when the name of the dish has a suffix "gui" it means that the dish is roasted or grilled

Food Product Dating Terms
The labeling on a package of hot dogs may contain one of several different types of dates.

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

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Chi mangia bene, vive bene is an Italian phrase which means
"Who eats well, lives well"

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The 15th of May is officially the national day of Pisco in Chile.

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- Food Trivia: Honduras : Pineapples are grown by many Hondurans in their gardens In Honduras, every part of the pineapple is used for something. The skin is used to make tea, Chicha or vinegar for preserving vegetables ; the fruit is used to make juice, jam or pies; and the tops are put in buckets of water until they sprout roots and can be replanted in the garden.

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- Food Trivia: Alcohol in Faroe Island, Rusdrekkasolin Landsins : Although alcohol is more readily available in the Faroe Island, it is restricted by some legislations. Going into the local supermarkets to buy alcohol would result nothing as alcohol is not available in the shops. The only place to buy any form of alcohol (beer, wine, or spirits) in Faroe Island is from Rusdrekkasolin Landsins which literally means "the country's alcohol sale". It is a state-run monolith that has the responsibilty on all things regarding alcohol.

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