Food

Where does Currywurst come from?

Currywurst was first sold in Berlin in 1949 by Herta Heuwer, who made a sauce for fried sausage from ketchup and curry powder she got from British soldiers. Germans now eat an estimated 800 million a year.

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Ackee

📍 West Africa (Senegal to Cameroon)

Ackee is Jamaica's national fruit, but the tree is native to West Africa and was carried to the Caribbean by the late 1700s. Its scientific name, Blighia sapida, honours Captain William Bligh.

Food

Cardamom (green)

📍 Western Ghats, southern India

Green cardamom, the spice of Swedish buns and Arabic coffee, grows wild in the rainforests of southern India. Yet since about 1980 the top grower has been Guatemala, where a German coffee planter brought it before World War I.

Food

Carpaccio (raw beef slices)

📍 Venice, Italy

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.

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Nature

Dobermann (dog breed)

📍 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.

Nature

Icelandic horse

📍 Iceland

Icelandic horses descend from ponies brought by Norse settlers more than 1,000 years ago. Today no horse may be imported into Iceland, and one that leaves can never come back. Many can do an extra-smooth gait called the tölt.

Game

Party balloon (the rubber balloon)

📍 London, England

The first rubber balloons were made in London in 1824 by the scientist Michael Faraday, who pressed two sheets of raw rubber together to hold hydrogen for his experiments. A year later Thomas Hancock was selling them as do-it-yourself toy kits.