The Mustard Lovers' Cookbook: Make Merry with Mustard - Savory Recipes: Appetizers, Snacks, Sides Mains

So much more than a spread, mustard goes way beyond a kitchen condiment. Read on and discover some fascinating facts about this unsung hero of your kitchen cupboard. * Once mustard was cut by hand using scythes. Crops were often as tall as 6 feet high and were hard to cut. So, when a blunt tool wasn’t up to the job, they would not ‘cut the mustard’. Hence the origins of the saying * The next National Mustard Day takes place on August 1st, 2020 * King Louis XI was a great lover of mustard. He took a pot of it with him wherever he traveled * The majority of the world’s mustard comes from Nepal and Canada * Southern Wisconsin is the home of the National Mustard Museum * We can thank Georg J French in 1904 for introducing French mustard * Every year in excess of 700 million pounds of mustard are consumed throughout the world * In a 12-month period the Yankee Stadium in New York goes through approximately 2 million individual sachets of mustard! * Some Danes believe that by spreading mustard seeds around the outside of their homes that they will keep out evil spirits The Mustard Lover’s Cookbook brings together a collection of 40 savory recipes featuring mustard as its star ingredient. From appetizer, snacks to sides and main meals, this cookbook shows you how to take mustard beyond the spread. Read more