The French Haute cuisine, literally ‘high cooking,’ appeared as a high art of cooking in the 1600s to distinguished itself from regular French cuisine with small, beautifully decorated servings of exotic food not typically found in France and hence very expensive and only reserved for royalties and nobles.Continue reading Gourmet
The term globalisation describes the integration of nations, cultures, and economies through the global network of trade, logistics, immigration and communication.Continue reading Globalisation
Contrary to popular folklore among engineers, there is no such thing as an automation fairy.Continue reading Framework
A Golden parachute is largely viewed as yet another corporate defence measure to prevent hostile takeovers (we have already covered macaroni defense and poison pill), but there is much more behind the colourful expression .Continue reading Golden parachute
For a start, yeah, kiosk is one of those short words with a funny, yet easy to memorise spelling, but how about its meaning? While the term kiosk entered English language from French kiosque, the word made its way in European vocabulary through Turkish koshk ‘pavilion, summer house,’ deriving from Persian kushk ‘palace, villa; pavilion, … Continue reading Kiosk
