Happy National Dessert Day!
The word "dessert" comes from a French term meaning "to clear the table". Which makes sense, as desserts are often the last course of a meal.
The earliest sweeteners are dried fruits and honey, often used as offerings to gods in various gods like in Mesopotamia and India. Speaking of India, they would help create desserts as we know them. How? Because before 500 BC, they would grow and refine sugarcane. Sugarcane would spread throughout Asia thanks to trade, allowing sugar to be a staple ingredient in cooking and dessert-making for the next thousand years there and in the Middle East.
In Europe, sugar and sugarcane would be rather rare, if not outright unknown until the Crusades and colonization. Still, desserts would remain a luxury for the rich in Europe. It would not be until the rise if the Industrial Age that sugar and desserts would be readily available to commoners.
Desserts can take many forms. Cakes, pies, ice cream, cookies/biscuits, or even something like a little candy bar. But they generally are something that is delicious, but not the healthiest thing to have regularly nutrition-wise, ha ha. So yeah. Treat yourself to a nice dessert today! Tnaks for reading this blog entry! See you next time!
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