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China’s Black Gold

Originated in China and known as Yiang Yong, soy sauce has been a staple in China for thousands of years. When it comes to cooking Chinese food, it is by far the most widely used ingredient. As a result of travel, and broadened trading routes, soy sauce is now widely used in Japan, Korea, and all throughout the Southeast Asian Countries, as well as in the western world.

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A Ray of Hope: G8 to Start Tackling Global Food Crisis

On the Project Concern site, there’s this message: Here is a challenge to consider: tonight - for just one night - go without dinner; go to bed hungry. This act of conviction serves to remind each of us of the global emergency that is currently being described by the World Food Program as the “silent tsunami.”

Imagine having to go without food for days on end as roughly a billion people do on a regular basis. Imagine having to put your kids to sleep at night hungry. How did we get to this point and what did the various governments in the world do to alleviate the hunger and the suffering? Not much, as most States still spend a large portion of their GDP, doggedly, in defense, shoring up armies and armament as if there’s no tomorrow, still drawing invisible battle lines on the earth, water and space.

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All You Need to Know about Ramen

According to some historians, noodles originated from China over 4,000 to 5,000 years ago and reached the Japanese culture much later on. In fact, we had to wait up to 19th century, in the Meiji period, for ramen to become widely known in Japan, and ages till it got to us in the western world.

Salt ramen originated in Hokkaido in the Taisho era. The Japanese dish was originally called “Lamen”, but will be later referred to as “Ramen”, since there is no distinction between the ‘L’ and ‘R’ sounds in the Japanese language and it was a more popular way to express the word.

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