FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Whether a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore, food is simply needed to promote growth, provide energy and most importantly, maintain life. Consisting of nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins or minerals, it's this combination of various plant, animal or fungal sources that make up our daily diet called food. Bon Appetite.
• APPETIZERS
A food or drink to preclude a meal and help stimulate your appetite, in some cases, it can become the meal itself.
• BEVERAGES
Served hot or cold, a beverage is any liquid item. It is estimated that over 2 billion cups of coffee are consumed each day.
• BREADS
From Egyptian flatbread (Aish merahrah) to Germany's crisp sweet bread (Zwieback), all breads are a baked and leavened food mixture whose basic constituent is flour or meal.
• BREAKFAST
Start off your day right with a host of foods from cereal to a full brunch buffet.
• DESSERTS
Usually served to conclude a meal and mostly consisting of sweet foods, desserts are for many, the main reason we eat our vegetables.
• ETHNIC FOODS
The world is not only diverse, but so are the foods from around thwe world, too.
• FRUITS
A fleshy seed structure born from a flowering plant, fruits can be sweet or sour and as we all enjoy, edible in their raw state.
• MEAT
Eaten raw, but better cooked, meat is simple animal flesh. Consisting of water, fat and protein, meat has been consumed by humans since prehistoric times.
• PASTA
Who doesn't love pasta in its countless sizes ans shapes.
• SALADS
We usually think of salads as simply a bowl of leafy vegetables, but in reality, it is any dish consisting of pieces of food. Served usually cold, it can also be warm as in the case of German potato salad or chicken salad.
• SEAFOODS
These gill-bearing aquatic animals lacking limbs or digits comprise over 34,000 known species are one of the world's greatest food sources.
• SNACKS
As a small portion of food or drink, usually eaten before the main daily meals, a snack can also be at times a fast light meal.
• SOUPS/BISQUES
As a liquid food utilizing meat, fish or vegetable stock as a base, and in some cases containg pieces of solid food, it is understandable that there are an endless variety of soup possibilities.
• VEGETABLES
As the fresh edible portion of a plant, vegetables can be either roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits or seeds.
• MISCELLANEOUS
Here is a collections of many more mouth-watering delights. But while we can't idenify these various dishes, rest assured they all were delicious.