Noodles: The World's Convenience Food

Noodles: The World's Convenience Food

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Jerry Lee Lewis's Child Bride

When Jerry Lee Lewis landed at Heathrow Airport for his first UK tour on 22nd May, 1958, he was met with a flurry of journalists eager for a scoop. Yet just one question brought everything to a halt: "Who are you?". A wide-eyed girl in Lewis's entourage answered: Myra Gale Brown, ...  Show more

Greyhound Hits The Road

When Carl Wickman started America’s first bus company on 21st May, 1914, they weren’t a bus company, and they weren’t called Greyhound - they were a commuter service for miners in Hibbing, Minnesota. But, despite their ‘dirty dog’ reputation (and the fact they’re now owned by a B ...  Show more

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In the year 2000 Japan was asked what its greatest invention of the twentieth century was. They had a LOT to choose from. The Walkman. The bullet train. Digital Cameras. Pokemon. But the winner was Instant Noodles. Today Dallas learns about Momofuku Ando, the inventor-cum-tax-eva ...  Show more

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Savory, chewy, and, above all, slurp-able, a delicious bowl of ramen is one of the triumphs of Japanese cuisine. That's also a bit odd, because, for most of Japanese history, heavy, meaty, wheaty noodle soup would have had no place in the archipelago's otherwise bland and mostly ...  Show more

Les cup noodles et la famine japonaise
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Les nouilles instantanées comme les Cup Noodles, il s'en écoule 100 milliards de portions par an ! Au départ, c'est un concept qui a été inventé au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale par un seul homme : Ando Momofuku. Aujourd'hui, c'est un énorme business. Mais tout ça ne no ...  Show more

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