Le Croissant fertile est une expression désignant une région (non officielle) biogéographique du Proche et Moyen-Orient formant une bande de terres cultivables grâce à un climat suffisamment pluvieux, délimitée au sud par le désert de Syrie (qui forme la partie nord du désert d'Arabie), à l'ouest par la mer Méditerranée, et par les montagnes du Taurus et du Zagros au nord et à l'est. Il traverse les entités actuelles que sont la Palestine, Israël, la Jordanie, la Syrie, le Liban, le sud-est de la Turquie, le nord et l'est de l'Irak, et le bord ouest de l'Iran. Le terme fut introduit en 1916 par...

Pain au chocolat (French pronunciation: [pɛ̃ o ʃɔkɔla] , literally "bread with chocolate"), also known as chocolatine (pronounced [ʃɔkɔlatin] ) in the south-west part of France and in Canada, or couque au chocolat in Belgium, is a type of Viennoiserie pastry consisting of a cuboid-shaped piece of yeast-leavened laminated dough, similar in texture to a puff pastry, with one or two pieces of dark chocolate in the center. The chocolate usually has a slight bite to the texture. Pain au chocolat is made of the same layered doughs as a croissant. Often sold still hot or warm from the oven, they a...

Noun: mille-feuille (plural mille-feuilles)

1. A type of pastry made of several layers of puff pastry usually filled with cream or custard, and topped with icing or sugar.
2. Synonyms: Napoleon cake, (originally US slang) napoleon
3. mille-feuille m (plural mille-feuilles)
4. (cooking) mille-feuille, vanilla slice
5. mille-feuille f (plural mille-feuilles)

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Noun: milfoil (countable and uncountable, plural milfoils)

1. Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium.
2. Any of several similar pungent Eurasian herbs, of the genus Achillea
3. Any plants of the genus Myriophyllum; water milfoil.

Erdenet (Mongolian: Эрдэнэт, literally "with treasure") is the third-largest city in Mongolia, with a 2018 population of 98,057, and the capital of the aimag (province) of Orkhon. Located in the northern part of the country, it lies in a valley between the Selenge and Orkhon rivers about 240 km (149 mi) (as the crow flies) northwest of Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan, the capital. The road length between Ulaanbaatar and Erdenet is about 370 km (230 mi). == History == Erdenet, one of the youngest settlements in Mongolia, was founded in 1974 in an area where large deposits of copper had been discovered in the...

Thutmose, also known as "The King's Favourite and Master of Works, the Sculptor Thutmose" (also spelled Djhutmose, Thutmosis, and Thutmes), was an Ancient Egyptian sculptor. He flourished around 1350 BC, and is thought to have been the official court sculptor of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten in the latter part of his reign. A German archaeological expedition digging in Akhenaten's deserted city of Akhetaten, known today as Amarna, found a ruined house and studio complex (labeled P47.1-3) in early December 1912; the building was identified as that of Thutmose based on an ivory horse blinker found...

Les croustillons sont une pâtisserie belgo-néerlandaise constituée de petites bouchées de pâte à beignets cuites dans une friture et généralement saupoudrées de sucre glace (couramment nommé sucre impalpable ou sucre farine en Belgique francophone). C'est une pâtisserie classique et de préparation aisée, emblématique des fêtes foraines et, en raison de racines très régionales et folkloriques, connue sous divers noms selon les traditions locales. == Préparation et consommation == Par des baraques et roulottes de fêtes foraines ou autres foires, le croustillon est traditionnellement vendu en lot...