food & drink

Chilies, cayenne pepper, chili pepper or powder, paprika and hot red pepper come from one or more of the several varieties of the capsicum pepper, which was one of the taste surprises from New World brought to Europe by the Spanish in the sixteenth century....

The colour of beer or of any translucent liquid depends on how much of it you look through. A single drop f beer looks colourless. A glass of it may, according to the brew, appear to be an amber yellow or dark brown. Beer that is yellow in a tumbler would...

Champagne was once drunk almost exclusively by the aristocracy. The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century created a fast growing group of manufactures, and brought wealth to people who had never had it before. Because of its touch of class,...

When first poured into a glass, most soft drinks fizz so actively that wet bubbles fly off the surface of the liquid into the air. The leaping fizz and the bubbles in the body of the liquid are all from carbon dioxide gas escaping from the water in the...