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Carpaccio was created at Harry's Bar in Venice by Giuseppe Cipriani for a countess whose doctors had told her to avoid cooked meat. He named the paper-thin raw beef after Vittore Carpaccio, a Venetian painter known for his rich reds.
📍 China
Tofu comes from China. Legend credits Han-dynasty Prince Liu An with inventing it over 2,000 years ago, but the first clear written mention dates from around 965 AD. Japan's first record of it is from 1183.
📍 Adria (Veneto), Italy
Ciabatta seems age-old, but a baker in Adria, near Venice, created it only in 1982, as an Italian answer to the French baguettes that were taking over sandwich bars. Its name means 'slipper'.
📍 Bonn, Germany
Gummy bears were first made in Bonn in 1922 by the confectioner Hans Riegel, who shaped his fruit gums like the 'dancing bears' then seen at German fairs. They only caught on in the USA in the 1980s.
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📍 Croatia (Habsburg Military Frontier)
The necktie goes back to the knotted neck scarves of Croatian soldiers serving in France during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Parisians copied them and named them 'cravates', after 'Croates'. Croatia now celebrates Cravat Day on 18 October.
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📍 Nîmes, France
Your jeans are part French: 'denim' is short for serge de Nîmes, 'serge from Nîmes', a city in southern France. English had the word by the 1690s, and American mills were weaving cotton denim by 1789.
📍 Apolda, Thuringia, Germany
The Dobermann was first bred around 1890 in Apolda, in central Germany, by Louis Dobermann, a tax collector who also ran a dog pound. With dogs of many breeds at hand, he set out to create the ideal dog to protect him.