Tools for gardening have remained remarkably unchanged, and technology, except for the 20th-century development of power tools of one kind or another and the late 20th-century influence of computers, ...
Andouillettes are tripe sausages—sausages made from the stomach lining of pigs together with various assorted innards and a leavening of belly of pork, and stuffed inside the pig's intestine. They ...
Distilled, flavoured, and sweetened alcoholic liquors, usually 20–40% alcohol, 20–30% sugar.
(1864–1933), German landscape architect who was an outstanding personality in his profession in the first third of the 20th century.Barth's most famous work before the Second World War was ...
Calcutta, India. Known since 1950 as the Indian Botanic Garden, throughout the 19th, and for much of the 20th century, this was one of the great botanic gardens of the ...
County Carlow, Ireland, was laid out in the 20th century as the setting for a mid 18th-century country house, but the site goes back at least to the 16th century. ...
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, is, with its 660 hectares/1,630 acres, one of the largest 20th-century public parks. It was innovative in its concept, avoiding the words ‘park’ and ...
With 275 processing plants worldwide, 22,000 employees, and official sales of more than $20 billion at the end of the millennium, the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is one of ...
Randers, Denmark. The sharply sloping terrain which falls 20 m/70 ft from the home farm inspired a terraced garden of Italian character in 1723, planned by architect J. C. Krieger ...
Near Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain. The Costa Brava became a fashionable place to live, or to have a holiday home, in the early 20th century. This estate was acquired ...
Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA, is a 12.5-hectare/31-acre garden, opened to the public in 1993, that is known for its imaginative plantings. The garden surrounds an early 20th-century summer house in a ...
Bulgaria, is the generic name for several riverside public parks in cities along the river Danube, most of which were laid out at the beginning of the 20th century. The ...
Phoenix, Arizona, USA, is set in an arid valley landscape punctuated by the red rock buttes of Papago Park, and contains within its 20 hectares/50 acres one of the world's ...
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, the most important urban shoreline park created in South America in the second half of the 20th century. The project was designed ...
Hummelo, Gelderland, the Netherlands, is one of the most renowned nurseries of the end of the 20th century. It was started in 1982 by Piet (b. 1944) and Anja Oudolf ...
Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, the Netherlands, were founded in 1888 by Bonne Ruys (1865–1950) and were one of the most important perennial nurseries in the early 20th century. Ruys was encouraged by ...
Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Designed by Pietro Porcinai, Italy's most important 20th-century landscape architect, in the early 1960s, the garden reflects Renaissance ideas of balance and proportion ...
A Neapolitan Christmas speciality: little deep-fried rounds of dough coated in caramel. The etymology of the word is unknown.
Charleston, South Carolina, USA, is among the oldest (if not the most senior) landscaped estates in America, a gracious 18th-century southern plantation (then some 20,000 hectares/50,000 acres) ...
(1891–1973), outstanding German landscape architect in the first half of the 20th century.Before the First World War he designed gardens in various countries in Europe, such as Russia, Bohemia ...