Sandwich Story

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Sandwich Story
Sandwich Story
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For many people around the world, the day begins with a delicious sandwich. Have you ever wondered when and how the sandwich appeared and who created it?

There are many versions… According to some historical sources, the inventor of the sandwich was Rabbi Hillel the Elder, who lived in the first century BC. During Easter, he ate thin cakes smeared with a mixture of crushed nuts, grated apples and spices.

Culinary historians who have studied the history of the variety of sandwich, the hamburger, believe that its origin is associated with the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan (XII century). According to others, the sandwich appeared in Europe in the Middle Ages, when people rarely used plates. Instead, they placed boiled or roasted meat on slices of bread.

Pate
Pate

There are other researchers who see the first hot dog in Homer's famous work, The Odyssey, which vaguely mentions some sausages.

The most reliable theory about the origin of the sandwich is considered to be that related to the Enlightenment. The first official mention of the sandwich with its own name dates back to 1762. The English historian Edward Gibbon describes how London Conservatives gathered at the famous club "The cocoa three" and ate sandwiches, drank punch and talked about business and politics.

The name of the sandwich is associated with John Montague (1719-1792). Mentegu was Earl of Sandwich County and First Lord of the Admiralty. The earl was a passionate card player and had a habit of not getting up from the table for hours.

Fas Food
Fas Food

Overwhelmed by mosquitoes, he did not have time to eat and made his cooks bring him toasted slices of beef between them. So he ate without interrupting his game.

According to one of the count's biographers, however, he was extremely busy not with card games but with state affairs, and because of them he invented the branches with which he ate from his desk.

Thanks to his discovery, Count John Montague managed to enter world culinary history. The Sandwich nobleman was a member of the English Parliament and took an active part in the preparation of Captain Cook's 1778 expedition around the world.

After the expedition discovered the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, they were originally named Sandwich Islands in honor of Lord Sandwich.

Here are some sandwich recipes.

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