#pudding

Source: Atlas Obscura Ever seen “carrageenan” at the end of the incomprehensible list of ingredients on the back of your ice cream tub or toothpaste tube? This mystery ingredient actually comes from one of several species of seaweed. One such species is carrageen (Chondrus crispus). While often

Source: wikiHow Co-authored by wikiHow Staff |11 References Chia seed pudding is a nutritious pudding that’s easy to make; you don’t have to cook a thing! Throw together the basic ingredients in a few minutes, then let the mixture sit for a couple of hours or overnight to develop the pudding’s

Source: Atlas Obscura On most days, women in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, India, are not safe alone on the street after dark. But on the ninth day of Attukal Pongala, a festival dedicated to the Hindu goddess Bhadrakali, four million women from all over the country fill 15

Source: Atlas Obscura Thirty percent of Canada’s labor force was unemployed during the Great Depression. In the French-speaking province of Québéc, women had many mouths to feed and few ingredients to work with. Legend has it that pouding chômeur (“unemployed-person pudding”) was created by

Source: Atlas Obscura In the northern Portuguese city of Braga, in the parish of Priscos, there once lived a man named Manuel Joaquim Machado Rebelo. Known as the Abbot of Priscos, Rebelo became one of the country’s most lauded chefs during the 19th century. His legacy? An incomparably sumptuous