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...million metric tons of wheat that the U.S. donates to struggling countries each year, a few thousand bushels come from Keith and Marlene Kisling's farm in Burlington, Okla. The Kislings grow more than 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) of hard red winter wheat, which is typically used in whole-wheat bread, cinnamon rolls and other doughy treats. "It's the best quality wheat in the world," says Keith Kisling...
...very same wheat is also the main ingredient in instant noodles produced nearly 10,000 miles (16,000 km) away in a factory in Central Java, Indonesia. Noodles aren't as important as rice in the world's fourth most populous country, but they can be found in the cupboards of almost every Indonesian household. That wasn't the case a decade ago, however, when inflation and rioting following the fall of President Suharto's 32-year military regime prompted food prices to soar, caused factories to fail and led unemployment to double...
...help alleviate the crisis, the U.S. shipped some 30,000 metric tons of wheat to the struggling nation in 1999--and continued to do so until 2005. But rather than simply handing over the wheat to produce the low-cost noodles, the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) contracted with a fledgling nongovernmental organization called International Relief & Development (IRD) to create a pioneering food-aid program using a business model that has since become a template for projects in Cambodia, Niger and Sri Lanka...
...city about 300 miles (480 km) southeast of Jakarta with some 700,000 inhabitants--is one of the beneficiaries of the program. The noodle factory employs 3,500 and estimates its annual sales at $50 million. One of the country's largest producers of rice vermicelli, egg noodles and wheat biscuits, TPS saw its production drop about 20% after the fall of Suharto as wheat prices doubled. TPS vice president Budhi Istanto, whose family started the business in 1959, credits IRD with helping the company "get back to its optimal capacity. We were not going to close, but we slowed...
...JEWEL OF RUSSIA ULTRA Don't be fooled by the imposing packaging - this Russian wheat vodka is surprisingly delicate. Any impurities are removed during a five-stage process in which the spirit is filtered through charcoaled peach and apricot pits. ($120; www.jewelofrussia.com...