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Pasta was brought back from China to Italy by Marco Polo

kitchenmyths / April 17, 2015

Nice story, but false. Marco Polo’s journeys to the far east occurred in the late 13th century, while the the […]

Heavy cream and whipping cream are the same

kitchenmyths / July 28, 2013

I was quite interested to find out that this is not only false, but it is defined by US Government

You can keep meat moist by cooking it in a stew or braising it

kitchenmyths / May 2, 2012

This seems to make sense—cooking meat in a moist environment would keep it moist, right? Not necessarily. A major determinant

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Different areas of your tongue are sensitive to different tastes

kitchenmyths / April 12, 2012

I remember learning this in high school – the so-called tongue map that claimed that each of the 4 fundamental