Polenta is an Italian dish that the majority of Italians know. This food was, for many years, the staple diet of many farmers because of its low cost, easy availability and good supply of calories that could provide to better face the cold and tiring days of work.

Food has always been subject of attention from everyone, both as a simple way to feed us and as a useful ally to maintain good health. Perhaps not everyone knows that food has become the protagonist of several museums around the world. Today I’ll let you discover some of the most curious food museum ever.

Rice is a very common food in our homes. The origins of rice are ancient. Some say that rice was born on the slopes of Himalayas, others that it was born in south India, and from there it got then gradually in all other countries of the world. Several uses can be made with rice because it is not only an absolutely complete food talking about it from a nutritional point of view, but it is also a good ally for other uses, not very “common”.

A typical italian food, quite well known also abroad, is “piadina”.

Italy is famous for so many dishes in and outside the Country, and pesto is definitely one of these.

Milk is a very important drink for our health. We have been accustomed from childhood to drink it and even as adults we continue to drink it or eat it in underneath different forms. With milk you can create an unimaginable amount of yummy food, but let’s go with order.

On June 18th 2015 Ramadan started — the “hot month” of the year, originally named this way because was celebrated in the hottest month of the year.

Water is perhaps the most important element for our body. Infact, as everyone knows, our body is made by two-thirds of water, a substance from the transparent color, with chemical formula H2O. Many studies have been conducted to understand the exact value that brings water to our organism, let have a look to some of them.

Mushrooms are a food that we all know, rich in water, iron, phosphorus and zinc, and poor  in lipids and carbohydrates. But do we know them well?

A vegetable that many of us love to eat when in season is asparagus. Asparagus is present on our tables since two thousand years ago, and is a vegetable that has a lot of good properties, vitamins and minerals very important for our body such as folic acid, useful for pregnant women, and vitamins A, B , C and E.