Goulash is named after the cowboys who cooked it: gulyás is Hungarian for 'cattle herder'. It began as a herdsmen's stew on the Great Hungarian Plain; the paprika that colours it only reached Europe in the 1500s. In Hungary, it's a soup.
📍 Osaka, Japan
Takoyaki, batter balls with a bit of octopus inside, were first sold in 1935 by Osaka street vendor Tomekichi Endo, who borrowed the octopus from Akashi's egg dumplings. The sauce and mayo topping came after the war.
📍 North Moluccas, Indonesia
Until colonial times, cloves grew only on a few small islands in Indonesia's Moluccas, the original “Spice Islands”, such as Ternate and Tidore. Chinese merchants sailed there to trade for them.
📍 Tian Shan, Central Asia
The apple's wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, still grows in Central Asia's Tian Shan mountains, where apples were first domesticated before travelling along the Silk Road to Europe.
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📍 Oslo, Norway
Norwegian chemical engineer Erik Rotheim of Oslo applied for the first aerosol spray can patent in 1926. Americans later made spray cans famous with WWII 'bug bombs' that sprayed insecticide against malaria mosquitoes.
📍 England
Cribbage grew out of noddy, an old English card game, and the poet Sir John Suckling is credited with inventing it in the early 1600s. Points are scored by moving pegs along a wooden board full of holes.
📍 Lisses (near Paris), France
Parkour took shape in Lisses, near Paris, where David Belle and friends trained together. They called themselves the Yamakasi, from a Lingala phrase meaning “strong man, strong spirit”.