A Christmas present for you from The Language Chef.   We have put together a booklet of 12 traditional christmas desserts, language origins, pronunciation, history and a recipe ...

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Krumkake (Norwegian  , meaning bent cake, plural krumkaker- Krum in Norwegian means curved or crooked. Kake, is cake from the old norse kaka; hense curved cake. It’s a ...

The Bûche de Noël is an edible optical illusion.  It is made and decorated to look like a log from the forest – an actual Yule log.  And what is a Yule log you ask?  ...

Last night we had Pepperidge Farm cookies for dessert.  Milanos to be exact – and I thought who comes up with these names?   Apparently, they are cookies for adults hence ...

I was going to write about cream pies in general but happened upon this pie.  I’ve never heard of it but it seems to be well-known in the UK.  Banoffee or Banoffi is a ...

In French, whipped cream is fondly referred to as ‘Creme Chantilly” (pronounced ‘Chan Tee Ee) double L’s and a Y! The story goes that as Chantilly was a ...