CDHM The Miniature Way
September 2010, Issue 8
Foods In Miniature
Page 16
A crispy salad Niçoise with olives and tuna or a Cobb salad with delicious Roquefort cheese and crispy bacon - so much variety. A salad is really only limited by your imagination!
In place of a refreshing salad, a cooling bowl of chilled, summer soup can take the heat out of the day. A soup made from freshly picked, sweetly fragrant peas and mint is hard to beat although one of the most famous chilled soups has to be Gazpacho - time for a little more culinary history here!
The tomato was found by Cortez in Montezuma's gardens and brought back to Spain in the 16th century but, as it was part of the nightshade family of plants, it was thought to be poisonous and only used as a decorative plant! Not until a famine in Italy 200 years later, when starving peasants ate the tomatoes without any ill effects, did the tomato become part of European culinary tradition. Without that famine we may never have known the delights of the humble tomato!
Enough of the history lesson and back to cooling foods for a hot, hot day!
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