Horseradish + Sugar

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(1) Anne Raver, Growing Your Own Horseradish. New York Times, Apr. 1, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/garden/01horseradish.html?scp=1&sq=horseradish&st=cse

Quote:

"The English word 'horseradish' probably evolved from the German 'meerrettich,' which means sea-radish (the plant grows wild in coastal areas), which was misunderstood by the English, who associated 'meer' with 'mahre,' an old horse

"Undisturbed, the root doesn’t have a strong smell or flavor. But crushing or grinding it produces isothiocyanates, a kind of mustard oil, Ms. Schultz Nelson said, which is what gives horseradish its flavor and heat.

"About 60 percent of the world’s horseradish is produced in Illinois. Collinsville, near St. Louis, has proclaimed itself the horseradish capital of the world

Note:
(a) kale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kale
(b) daikon 大根 (Japanese for 蘿蔔)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon



(2) Fergus M. Bordewich, Trouble By the Spoonful. Wall Street Journal, Mar. 31, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704896104575140631370218958.html
(book review on Elizabeth Abbott, Sugar: A bittersweet History. Overlook Press, 2010)
("Sugar was unknown to ancient Europeans. When the Greeks and Romans sweetened their feasts, it was with honey. "The noble cane," as it was once called, was first domesticated in New Guinea. By the late centuries B.C. it was known in India, and from there it traveled to the Middle East, where Europeans discovered it during the Crusades.")

Note:
(a) Barbadian (n, adj): inhabitant of or of Barbados, in the Caribbean.
(b) Postage stamp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp
("[P]ostage stamps were first introduced in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 May 1840* * * With its introduction the postage fee was to be paid by the sender and not the recipient, though sending mail prepaid was not a requirement. The first stamp [was] the penny black")
(c) Sugar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar
("Originally, people chewed sugarcane raw to extract its sweetness. Indians discovered how to crystallize sugar during the Gupta dynasty, around 350 AD" that was easier to store an to transport)
(d) Sugar beet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_beet
(Although beets have been grown as vegetables and for fodder since antiquity, their use as a sugar crop is relatively recent. Through selectively breeding, today's sugar beet has 20% sucrose by weight. The world's first beet sugar factory opened in 1801.)
(e) How Sugar is Made - an Introduction.
http://www.sucrose.com/learn.html

Quote:

"global production [of sugar] now exceeds 120 Million tons a year. Approximately 70% is produced from sugar cane * * * which is largely grown in the tropical countries. The remaining 30% is produced from sugar beet, a root crop resembling a large parsnip grown mostly in the temperate zones of the north.

"A typical sugar content for mature cane would be 10% by weight but the figure depends on the variety and varies from season to season and location to location.

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Sugar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar
("Traveling Buddhist monks brought sugar crystalization methods to China. During the reign of Harsha (r. 606–647) in North India, Indian envoys in Tang China taught sugarcane cultivation methods after Emperor Taizong of Tang (r. 626–649) made his interest in sugar known, and China soon established its first sugarcane cultivation in the seventh century. Chinese documents confirm at least two missions to India, initiated in 647 AD, for obtaining technology for sugar-refining.") (citations omitted)

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: If you are not interested, you may just read the quotations, without reading the articles.
: (1) Anne Raver, Growing Your Own Horseradish. New York Times, Apr. 1, 2010.
: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/garden/01horseradish.html?scp=1&sq=horseradish&st=cse
: Quote:
: (以下引言省略...)

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