by B.L. Unkel | Apr 22, 2023 | History
The only constants in life are death and taxes. You can’t escape either. So have you ever wondered when and where taxes started? Ancient Taxes (The Beginning) The first record of taxation occurred about 5,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt. The Greeks spread the...
by B.L. Unkel | Mar 25, 2023 | Baking
The Algonquins’ (Native Americans) word for it meant “a nut too hard to crack by hand.” When the Spanish Explorers arrived on the Texas and Louisiana shores, they called it a “wrinkle nut.” Today, it’s simply called a pecan. History Pecan trees are native to...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 17, 2022 | Baking
Time for more Butter trivia. “Modern” History As mentioned in last week’s, Did You Know No Mummy Would Be Caught Dead Without Butter?, until the nineteenth century, butter was produced by hand-churning only. The first butter production factories...
