Newly Trained Chefs Defy Traditional Sushi Apprenticeships

Many years back, an aspiring sushi chef prefer to join a traditional sushi restaurant as an apprentice striving later to become a taisho or a restaurant entrepreneur.

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Is The Food Crisis Of 2008 To Surface Again This Year?

In October of last year, the World Bank reactivated an emergency fund that the development organization had launched in response to the 2008 food crisis.

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How To Propagate, Increase Your Yield In Root Crops

Root crops are important in developing tropical countries like the Philippines. They are source of food and income to farmers.

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Chile Transforms Sewage Carrying River Into A Riverfront Park

Long stretches of the banks of Mapocho river in Santiago, Chile are lined with garbage, and homeless people live under some of its bridges.

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Engineered Alfalfa Propagation Is No Longer Restricted

Alfalfa is used for livestock feed and can be planted early or late in the year. It is a major crop in the United States, grown on about 22 million acres.

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Free Enterprise Is Now Sprouting In Communist Cuba?

Around 85 percent of all Cubans with jobs are employed by the state earning about US$ 20 dollars per month in exchange for free access to services like health and education, and a ration of subsidized goods.

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UN Security Council Condemns Libya For Using Force Against Protesters

The eastern Libyan port city of Tobruk appears to be under opposition control. Wall writings against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are on the walls of the burnt out city council building. Nearly 300 people have been killed so far, according to Human Rights Watch.

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Singapore Most Environmentally Friendly Metropolis In Asia

The Asian Green City Index, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by the German company Siemens AG, examined the environmental performance of 22 Asian cities in eight categories, including energy, land use, transport, waste, water and air quality.

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Does Cranberry Juice Prevent Bladder Infection?

Scottish researchers in 2009, had arranged some women with bladder infections to take one capsule a day filled with cranberry extract.

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