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Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen noodles and founder and chairman of Nissin Foods passed away on January 5, 2007 of a heart attack. Born in Taiwan, a Japanese territory at that time, he moved to Japan when his parents died when he was young. He had a varied career over the first half of his life, and even served two years in jail for tax evasion. It was in 1958, when he was 48 years old that he perfected a flash frying method of drying noodles so they could be quickly re-hydrated and eaten. He had spent many years inventing food products after the food lines he saw in Japan post WWII.

Chikin (Chicken) Ramen was the first of the instant noodle products released and originally it was an expensive, luxury product that cost six times as much as normal, slow cook noodles. Soon production methods dropped the price and we ended up with the inexpensive food eaten by nearly every college student and struggling bachelor the world over.

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An Italian inventor has developed a way to make paper from apple by-products, according to a recent release on FreshPlaza.com. About two years ago, Dr. Albert Volcan (right) began work on the process of drying, cooling and grinding waste from apple juice production. He has since fine tuned the method so that the apple waste doesn't ferment and is thus able to produce a stable paper product that is being called Cartamela. For you Italian speakers, more info is available at EcoApple.com.