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...Bible tells us that Abraham fed it to his guests. Assyrians ate it for their health and, according to Pliny, Persian women believed it to be good for their skin. In Iran, the sour, thick fermented milk is called mast, and one of the most popular brands is "Mickey Mast." The Greeks know it as oxygala, and it is filmjolk in Sweden. Bulgarians have always had the reputation of being the world's greatest yogurt eaters but, thanks to the energies of a Paris company called Societe Danone, the French, of all people, are taking over the championship. Last...
...eccentric Russian scientist, Elie Metchnikoff, is basically responsible. Puzzled by the longevity of villagers in the backwoods of Bulgaria, he bent over his test tubes at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in the early 1900s and concluded that so many Bulgarians lived to be more than 100 because they ate lots of fermented milk. Their yogurt contained Bacillus bulgaricus, which, Metchnikoff decided, chased out the "wild, putrefying bacilli in our large intestine." He consumed untold gallons himself, discoursed profusely about what he believed to be its beneficial effects, and died at the age of 71, leaving behind a mere handful...
Family Allowances. His second solution to the plight of the urban poor is to give allowances to families with children. "We are the only industrial democracy in the world," he told a Sen ate subcommittee last winter, "that does not have a family or children's allowance. And we are the only industrial democracy in the world whose streets are filled with rioters each summer...
...dinner. Thirty huge turtles taken from pens outside the King's palace went into the royal soup. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii representing President Johnson, were among 3,000 guests who knelt on mats in the malae (palace park), ate (with fingers) such South Sea exotica as lupuhi -chicken and duck broiled in coconut sauce-and joined Tongans in consuming vats of a mildly narcotic, tongue-numbing drink made from pepper roots...
Disguised Footprints. At first, Itō and his fellow stragglers ate raw breadfruit and coconuts and lived in a cave. None of them was a woodsman, and none had gone through even a basic survival course in the Imperial Army. (Itō was the son of a well-to-do farmer and had an eighth-grade education.) Slowly they learned to adapt themselves to jungle life, and their habits changed...