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2006-05-10T17:02:00.000+09:00

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History of Pasta

2006-05-09T17:06:00.000+09:00

Nothing says Italy like its food, and nothing says Italian food like pasta. Wherever Italians have immigrated they have brought their pasta and so today it is basically an international staple. Unlike other ubiquitous Italian foods like Pizza and tomato sauce, which have a fairly recent history pasta may indeed have a much older pedigree going back hundreds if not thousands of years. To begin to unravel the long an often complex world of pasta we have to look at its origins and some of the myths surrounding this now worldwide food.Read more:Pasta

History of Chocolate

2006-05-09T15:47:00.000+09:00

The tasty secret of the cacao (kah KOW) tree was discovered 2,000 years ago in the tropical rainforest of the Americas. The pods of this tree contains seed that can be processed into chocolate.The story of how chocolate grew from a local Mesoamerican beverage into a global sweet encompasses many cultures and continents.The first people known to have made chocolate were the ancient cultures of Mexico and Central America. These people, including the Maya and Aztec, mixed ground cacao seeds with various seasonings to make a spicy, frothy drink.Later, the Spanish conquistadors brought the seeds back home to Spain, where new recipes were created. Eventually, and the drink’s popularity spread throughout Europe. Since then, new technologies and innovations have changed the texture and taste of chocolate, but it still remains one of the world’s favorite flavors.Read more: Chocolate, Chocolate1

Tea

2006-05-09T15:29:00.000+09:00

There are various legends surrounding the origins of tea. Perhaps the most famous is the Chinese story of Shen Nung, the emperor and renowned herbalist, who was boiling his drinking water when leaves from a nearby tea shrub blew into the cauldron. He tasted the resulting brew, and the beverage of tea was born. An alternative story claims that links tea drinking to the Indian prince Bodhidharma, who converted to Buddhism and in the sixth century and went to China to spread the word. In Japan, it was the Sung method of preparing tea that took hold. In China, tea fell out of favour as a drink during the years of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368), when the Mongol rulers considered the drinking of tea a symbol of decadence. But it returned to popularity under the native Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).Read more: tea

Coffee timeline

2006-05-08T12:35:00.000+09:00

Prior to 1000 A.D.: Members of the Galla tribe in Ethiopia notice that they get an energy boost when they eat a certain berry, ground up and mixed with animal fat.
1000 A.D.: Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations. They also began to boil the beans, creating a drink they call "qahwa" (literally, that which prevents sleep).
1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, open there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fail to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.
1511: Khair Beg, the corrupt governor of Mecca, tries to ban coffee for feat that its influence might foster opposition to his rule. The sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed.
1600: Coffee, introduced to the West by Italian traders, grabs attention in high places. In Italy, Pope Clement VIII is urged by his advisers to consider that favorite drink of the Ottoman Empire part of the infidel threat. However, he decides to "baptize" it instead, making it an acceptable Christian beverage.
1607: Captain John Smith helps to found the colony of Virginia at Jamestown. It's believed that he introduced coffee to North America. 1645: First coffeehouse opens in Italy.
1652: First coffeehouse opens in England. Coffee houses multiply and become such popular forums for learned and not so learned - discussion that they are dubbed "penny universities" (a penny being the price of a cup of coffee).
1668: Coffee replaces beer as New York's City's favorite breakfast drink.
1668: Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse opens in England and is frequented by merchants and maritime insurance agents. Eventually it becomes Lloyd's of London, the best-known insurance company in the world.
1672: First coffeehouse opens in Paris.
1675: The Turkish Army surrounds Vienna. Franz Georg Kolschitzky, a Viennese who had lived in Turkey, slips through the enemy lines to lead relief forces to the city. The fleeing Turks leave behind sacks of "dry black fodder" that Kolschitzky recognizes as coffee. He claims it as his reward and opens central Europe's first coffee house. He also establishes the habit of refining the brew by filtering out the grounds, sweetening it, and adding a dash of milk.
1690: With a coffee plant smuggled out of the Arab port of Mocha, the Dutch become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially, in Ceylon and in their East Indian colony - Java, source of the brew's nickname.
1700: By 1700 there were nearly 2000 coffee housesin London. King Charles II banned coffee houses because they were regardedas hotbeds of revolution; the ban lasted 11 days.
1713: The Dutch unwittingly provide Louis XIV of France with a coffee bush whose descendants will produce entire Western coffee industry when in 1723 French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu do Clieu steals a seedling and transports it to Martinique. Within 50 years and official survey records 19 million coffee trees on Martinique. Eventually, 90 percent of the world's coffee spreads from this plant.
1721: First coffee house opens in Berlin.
1727: The Brazilian coffee industry gets its start when Lieutenant colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta is sent by government to arbitrate a border dispute between the French and the Dutch colonies in Guiana. Not only does he settle the dispute, but also strikes up a secret liaison with the wife of French Guiana's governor. Although France guarded its New World coffee plantations to prevent cultivation from spreading, the lady said good-bye to Palheta with a bouquet in which she hid cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.
1732: Johann Sevastian Bach composes his Kaffee-Kantate. Partly an ode to coffee and partly a stab at the movement in Germany to prevent women from drinking coffee (it was thought to make them sterile), the cantata includes the aria, "Ah! How sweet coffee taste! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee."
1773: The Boston Tea Party makes drinking coffee a patriotic duty in America.
1775: Prussia's Frederick the Great tries to block inports of green coffee, as Prussia's wealth is drained. Public outcry changes his mind.
1886: Former wholesale grocer Joel Cheek names his popular coffee blend "Maxwell House," after the hotel in Nashville, TN where it's served.
Early 1900's: In Germany, afternoon coffee becomes a standard occasion. The derogatory term "KaffeeKlatsch" is coined to describe women's gossip at these affairs. Since broadened to mean relaxed conversation in general.
1900: Hills Bros. begins packing roast coffee in vacuum tins, spelling the end of the ubiquitous local roasting shops and coffee mills.
1901: The first soluble "instant" coffee is invented by Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago.
1903: German coffee importer Ludwig Roselius turn a batch of ruined coffee beans over to researchers, who perfect the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying the flavor. He markets it under the brand name "Sanka." Sanka is introduced to the United States in 1923.
1906: George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala, notices a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee carafe. After experimentation, he creates the first mass-produced instant coffee (his brand is called Red E Coffee).
1920: Prohibition goes into effect in United States. Coffee sales boom.
1938: Having been asked by Brazil to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses, Nestle company invents freeze-dried coffee. Nestle develops Nescafe and introduces it in Switzerland.
1940: The US imports 70 percent of the world coffee crop.
1942: During W.W.II, American soldiers are issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits. Back home, widespread hoarding leads to coffee rationing.
1946: In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects his espresso machine. Cappuccino is named for the resemblance of its color to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin order.
1969: One week before Woodstock the Manson Family murders coffee heiress Abigail Folger as she visits with friend Sharon Tate in the home of filmmaker Roman Polanski.
1971: Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's Pike Place public market, creating a frenzy over fresh-roasted whole bean coffee.
1979: Mr Cappuccino opens for business!
Source: coffee timeline

Mini-Comets Approaching Earth

2006-05-08T12:01:00.000+09:00

A cometary "string-of-pearls" will fly past Earth in May 2006 giving astronomers a fantastic view of a dying comet.

In 1995, Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 did something unexpected: it fell apart. For no apparent reason, the comet's nucleus split into at least three "mini-comets" flying single file through space. In May 2006 the fragments are going to fly past Earth closer than any comet has come in more than twenty years. Astronomers will be able to take pictures as the mini-comets file through the constellations Cygnus and Pegasus on May 12,13 and 14.

Source: science.nasa.

8-5-2006

2006-05-08T10:21:00.000+09:00

delapan Mei dua ribu enam. pagi. serba tidak jelas. gak ada yang menarik untuk diceritakan. tapi bukan berarti kehidupanku tidak menarik. hanya saja lingkungan pekerjaanku tidak menarik. membunuh mood. aku terjebak di sini. 08.00 sampai 05.00.pindah kerja. umur udah lewat untuk dengan mudah pindah-pindah kerja.

Payah

2006-05-03T11:43:00.000+09:00

Payah..payah..
Gimana sih bikin kaya gitu aja gak bisa!!!
Semuanya harus aku yang ngerjain...trus lu tinggal makan gaji buta!!!
Sekalian aku aja yang jadi Bos..
Huh! Dari kerjaan bos sampai kerjaan staff aku yang kerjain tapi gaji tetep aja standarnya staff..
Bos Gede juga kaya yang gak terlalu peduli padahal dia tau aku yang ngerjain semuanya!!! Apa ini bisa dibilang pelangaran Hak atas Karya Intelektual??? Harusnya iya.. Kan Program Kerja, ide dan berbagai pemecahan masalah itu hasil pemikiran, trus dibajak sama bos...
Payah..payah...

Hutan Wisata Gunung Loka & Resort Outbond

2006-04-28T15:42:00.000+09:00

Terletak di Desa Bonto Marannu, Kecamatan Uluere, sekitar 24 kilometer dan Kota Bantaeng. Perjalanan menuju ke sana dapat ditempuh sekitar 90 menit, melewati Kecamatan Bissappu.Jalan menuju ke sana berkelok-kelok dan mendaki di sepanjang jalan. Pengunjung dapat menyaksikan tanaman jagung yang ditanam di lereng-lereng bukit. Di sini udaranya sejuk, karena berada di atas daerah ketinggian.Hati-hati melakukan perjalanan ke sana pada musim hujan, karenajalannya licin. Kendaraan yang dibawa ke sana kondisinya harus prima. Remnya harus berfungsi dengan baik. Padatanjakan yang terdapat belokan, kurangi kecepatan kendaraan yang digunakan.Dari jalan raya, pengunjung harus berjalan kaki sekitar 1 kilo meter untuk mencapai hutan wisata Loka. Tak jauh dan hutan wisata itu, terdapat sarana olahraga yang disebut Loka Camp. Di antarajalan setapak yang dilewati, terdapat areal perkebunan yang ditanami sayur-sayuran di antaranya kol dan wortel. Di sini terdapat sarana olahraga misalnya untuk meluncur, berjalan di atas tali, dan berjalan di atasjala-jala.
Source: bantaeng

2006-04-26T15:20:00.000+09:00

hehe.. lucu juga