Flaked cereal was born in 1894 at a health sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, when the Kellogg brothers rolled out cooked wheat that had been left standing and got flakes. Meant as plain food for patients, it switched to corn and conquered breakfast.
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📍 Misserghin (near Oran), Algeria
The clementine is a happy accident: a cross of mandarin and sweet orange that sprang up in an orphanage garden at Misserghin, near Oran in Algeria. It was named in 1902 after the brother who tended it, Clément Rodier.
📍 Lima & the coast, Peru
Beef strips stir-fried in a wok with soy sauce, onion and tomato, served with both fries and rice: lomo saltado is a Peruvian favourite born in chifa, the cooking of Chinese immigrants who came to Peru from 1849.
📍 Southern Brazil & Uruguay
New Zealanders love feijoas so much that many think they are a Kiwi fruit, but they come from the highlands of southern Brazil and Uruguay. Plants taken from Uruguay to France in 1890 later reached California and then New Zealand.
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📍 New York City, USA
The modern crossword began as a “word-cross” by Liverpool-born journalist Arthur Wynne, printed in the New York World on 21 December 1913. Britain's first newspaper crossword followed only in 1924.
📍 Mississippi & Louisiana (Choctaw lands), USA
Bayou sounds French and reached English through Louisiana French in the 1760s, but it began as bayuk, a Choctaw word for a creek or small stream. Houston, Texas, is nicknamed the Bayou City.
📍 Greenland
Anorak comes from Greenlandic anoraq, a hooded, waterproof jacket. English adopted it in 1924, and by the 1980s British slang also used it for a socially awkward nerd.