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Asian Food Primer: Chinese Food

by David Johnson The term "Chinese food" can be misleading because there are many Chinese styles of cooking. Scholars believe that Chinese cooking as we know it today dates to the Shang…

Business Cards: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker

Tracing the origin of your family name, you may be able to find out not only who your ancestors were but also what they were. In 12th-century England, when family names began to be used, people…

DK History: Prehistoric Pottery

WHY WERE THE FIRST POTS SO IMPORTANT? FIND OUT MOREPottery-making was invented in Japanese fishing communities, in c. 10,500 BC. When they cooked, people noticed that the clay soil underneath…

K

(Encyclopedia) K, 11th letter of the alphabet. It is a usual symbol for a voiceless velar stop, as in the English cook. It corresponds to Greek kappa. In chemistry K is the symbol for the element…

Russell Baker

writerBorn: 1925Birthplace: Loudoun County, Virginia Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times. In 1993, he replaced Alistair Cooke as host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. Collections…

Elmer Jacob BURKETT, Congress, NE (1867-1935)

Senate Years of Service: 1905-1911Party: RepublicanBURKETT, Elmer Jacob, a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska; born on a farm near Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa, December 1, 1867;…

Joyce Chen

chefBirthplace: China Chen and her husband Thomas fled China in 1949 when the Communists took over. They settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1958 Chen opened a Chinese restaurant in Cambridge.…

Julia Child

(Julia McWilliams)chef and PBS personalityBorn: 8/15/1912Birthplace: Pasadena, California As host of the Emmy Award-winning educational cooking show, The French Chef, Child became a celebrity known…

Skokie

(Encyclopedia) SkokieSkokieskōˈkē [key], village (1990 pop. 59,432), Cook co., NE Ill., an industrial suburb adjacent to Chicago; inc. 1888. Its varied products include communications, computer, and…

DK History: Australia

WHY WERE CONVICTS SENT TO AUSTRALIA? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ABORIGINALS? WHEN DID AUSTRALIA BECOME A NATION? BIOGRAPHY: JAMES COOK 1728–1779 FIND OUT MOREThe coasts of Australia were first mapped by…