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Apples And Honey
Apples and honey is a traditional dish served by Ashkenazi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jews on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year's Day and the beginning of the High Holidays. History Ancient Israelites likely did not eat apples and honey, since apples were not cultivated in the Levant at the time. Honey from wild bees Samson's riddle, is attested in the Bible and archaeologists have discovered an apiary from the 10th century BCE in Israel. However, boiled fruit syrups, such as date honey, were the more common form of honey at the time. The first known connection between apples and Rosh Hashanah is in the prayer book ''Machzor Vitry'', written in 11th-century CE France. The first known mention of apples and honey being eaten on Rosh Hashanah comes from the 14th-century legal work ''Arba'ah Turim'', which states that German Jews ate apples and honey in order to bring sweetness into the New Year. Overview Apples and honey consists of raw apples sliced and served with a separate dish of hone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the Drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus, Bosporus Strait. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea with its outlets, the Bosporus and Dardanelles." Europe covers approx. , or 2% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
