{"id":482,"date":"2007-02-27T19:27:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2014-03-07T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:18:15","slug":"i-did-not-know-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"I did not know that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Nevins at <a href=\"http:\/\/nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/sic-semper-posterus.html\">No Fear of the Future<\/a> takes us through various historical Lords of the Grain and lands with both feet on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustav_I_of_Sweden\">Gustav Vasa<\/a>, and (in a tale that diverges into lutefisk, takes in the surprising [albeit alleged] origins of Madame du Barry&#8217;s passion for chocolate, and Diderot&#8217;s <i>bon mot<\/i> that &#8220;the potato is righly held responsible for flatulence. But what is flatulence to the vigorous organs of peasants and workers?&#8221;) links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latsta.nu\/getunited\/artikel.asp?oid=14389\">Swedish cuisine summary<\/a> that includes this delightful factoid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In one year people all over the world in 40 countries buy <b>60 000 tons crisp bread<\/b>. Sweden is the biggest consumer and every Swede consumes 4 kilos of crisp bread every year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m one of the addicts of <i>kn&auml;ckebr&ouml;d<\/i>, plowing through a few cases of the stuff every year (a case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Siljans-Crisp-Bread-16-9oz-480g\/dp\/B000LQJFUE\">Siljans<\/a> has 14 units, each with 6 rounds). Great all by itself, even better with cheese or smoked salmon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Nevins at No Fear of the Future takes us through various historical Lords of the Grain and lands with both feet on Gustav Vasa, and (in a tale that diverges into lutefisk, takes in the surprising [albeit alleged] origins of Madame du Barry&#8217;s passion for chocolate, and Diderot&#8217;s bon mot that &#8220;the potato is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}