Food and Drink Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
200 statements.
Jambalaya, Origin Period, From (Year)1837
Jambalaya, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1837
Marks the earliest print appearance of any form of the word jambalaya, in a Provencal-dialect poem published in 1837; this dates the WORD, not necessarily the dish itself, which the source says developed earlier during Louisiana's colonial period with no specific year given.
Source Jambalaya (Wikipedia)
Jambalaya, Origin Period, To (Year)1878
Jambalaya, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States 1878
Marks 1878, when jambalaya first appeared in a cookbook (the Gulf City Cook Book, South Mobile, Alabama), the first documented written recipe for the dish itself.
Source Jambalaya (Wikipedia)
Jansson's Temptation, Origin Period, From (Year)1928
Jansson's Temptation, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1928
Marks 1928, the year of the film Janssons frestelse that, per food writer Gunnar Stigmark, inspired the dish name at a dinner party his mother hosted; food writer Jens Linder considers the more common rival claim, that the dish is named for opera singer Pelle Janzon, unlikely, and the article does not fix a date for when the dish itself was first prepared, independent of this naming legend.
Source Jansson's Temptation (Wikipedia)
Jerk Chicken, Origin Period, From (Year)1600
Jerk Chicken, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1600
Century-level approximation only: the source traces the jerking technique to Jamaica's indigenous Arawak and Taino peoples with no fixed date, and to the 17th-century Jamaican Maroons who adopted and intermingled with them; 1600 marks that century, not the technique's considerably earlier indigenous origin, which the source leaves undated.
Source Jerk Chicken (Wikipedia)
Jiaozi, Origin Period, From (Year)25
Jiaozi, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 25
Traditional attribution to the Eastern Han era (AD 25-220); the source calls this a traditional belief, not an established date.
Source Jiaozi (Wikipedia)
Jiaozi, Origin Period, To (Year)220
Jiaozi, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States 220
Traditional attribution to the Eastern Han era (AD 25-220); the source calls this a traditional belief, not an established date.
Source Jiaozi (Wikipedia)
Kabsa, Origin RegionSaudi Arabia or Yemen
Kabsa, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Region
Currently States Saudi Arabia or Yemen
Origins are contested between Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Source Kabsa (Wikipedia)
Katsu Curry, Origin Period, From (Year)1918
Katsu Curry, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1918
Source Katsu curry - Wikipedia
Katsu Curry, Origin Period, To (Year)1948
Katsu Curry, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States 1948
Source Katsu curry - Wikipedia
Khachapuri, Origin Period, From (Year)1100
Khachapuri, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1100
Marks the twelfth century, the era Wikipedia's own account credits as the probable period of Georgia's cultural renaissance in which khachapuri arose, though its specific root remains unclear.
Source Khachapuri (Wikipedia)
Khinkali, Origin Period, From (Year)1200 CE
Khinkali, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1200 CE
Wikipedia "Khinkali" Origins: one legend holds khinkali originated in Mongolia and reached Georgia around the 13th century via the Silk Road (other sources say the dish originated locally among Georgian shepherds with no date given).
Source Khinkali (Wikipedia)
Kibbeh, Origin Period, From (Year)1700
Kibbeh, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1700
Marks the 18th century, per food historian Nawal Nasrallah the earliest mention of modern kibbeh (a filled shell of ground meat and grains) in the work Taj al-Arus min Jawahir al-Qamus; the source gives only the century.
Source Kibbeh (Wikipedia)
Kimbap, Origin Period, From (Year)1910
Kimbap, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1910
The commonly accepted theory places kimbap's origin in the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), when the Japanese makizushi roll was introduced to Korea. An alternative theory in the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture instead traces it to an older local tradition of rolling rice and side dishes in seaweed, with Korean seaweed (gim) production already recorded in fifteenth-century books, so the exact origin period is contested.
Source Kimbap (Wikipedia)
Kimbap, Origin Period, To (Year)1945
Kimbap, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States 1945
Same dispute as origin-start-year: the Japanese-occupation theory bounds the period at 1910-1945; the alternative local-tradition theory would place the dish earlier.
Source Kimbap (Wikipedia)
Kimchi, Origin Period, From (Year)1241
Kimchi, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1241
Marks a poem on Korean radish by 13th-century literatus Yi Gyubo (died 1241), the earliest secure documentary evidence that radish kimchi was common in Goryeo (918-1392); earlier Goguryeo-period fermented vegetables are described in later sources but are not independently dated.
Source Kimchi (Wikipedia)
Kung Pao Chicken, Origin Period, From (Year)1850
Kung Pao Chicken, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1850
Marks the mid-to-late 19th century the dish is credited as invented, believed named after Ding Baozhen (1820-1886), a late Qing dynasty official; the exact year is not documented and the origin itself is uncertain.
Source Kung Pao Chicken (Wikipedia)
Kung Pao Chicken, Origin Period, To (Year)1886
Kung Pao Chicken, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States 1886
Marks the end of Ding Baozhen's tenure as Governor-General (Viceroy) of Sichuan and the year of his death, the period the dish's invention and naming (Gongbao, his honorary title) is credited to, closing the bracket the live origin-start-year fact opens at 1850 (the mid-to-late 19th century estimate). The exact year of the dish's invention within his tenure is not documented.
Source Ding Baozhen (Wikipedia)
Kvass, Origin Period, From (Year)900
Kvass, Drinks
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 900
Presumed earlier Slavic folk origin, undated; no archaeological evidence found earlier than the written chronicle record.
Source A Brief History of Kvass, Russia's Bread in a Bottle (Russia Beyond)
Lasagna, Origin Period, To (Year)1305
Lasagna, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, To (Year)
Currently States 1305
Marks the approximate early 14th century date of the first recorded lasagna recipe in the Liber de Coquina; the source gives only the century, no exact year.
Source Lasagna (Wikipedia)
Laulau, Origin Period, From (Year)1819
Laulau, Dishes
Standing
Concerns Origin Period, From (Year)
Currently States 1819
Marks the 1819 gathering at which King Kamehameha II first invited women to dine with men, the event credited with the modern Hawaiian luau feast taking its name and shape; laulau is one of the traditional dishes served at such feasts. This dates the naming of the modern luau feast tradition, not the much older Hawaiian practice of preparing wrapped taro leaf dishes, which sources describe only as ancient with no fixed year.
Source History of the Luau (Luaus.org)