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May22
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Great Emigration departs for Oregon, 1843
A massive wagon train, made up of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of cattle, sets off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri. Known as the "Great …
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Category: Chinese Food

Unscrambling the Thousand-Year Egg
They may not really be 1,000 years old, but century eggs have a long history.

A Brief History of Chopsticks
From their humble beginnings as cooking utensils to paper-wrapped bamboo sets at the sushi counter, there’s more to chopsticks than meets the eye.

The Chop Suey Story
Legend has it that chop suey was born when forty-niners demanded food from a San Francisco Chinese restaurant.














