Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, Jan u a ry », 1947 Washington Digest? Aid* Makeup To do ■ good make-up Job try ta have two lights, one on either «Id« o f your m irro r. Thia w ill «Iso pro- vldo good Illu m in a tio n for clos« ■haves. I'erslan lied Muny Persians sleep In n kurlsee, a type of bed consisting of n tabla placed over u pan of burning char* coni and covered w ith n carpet The sleeper lies beside the table or par­ tia lly beneath It, under the edges of the carpet. By RAVKIIAGE N eu j A l a t i t i a u j C o m m e tu a l or. W M ' Service. 1616 Eye Street. \ W W ashington. 1). C. W ASHINGTON. — Do you knoi th a t an invention of a young Pet sian-A m erican m ay rid the orien o f its greatest curse, m a ln u tritio n Do you know how It happenei that some of the m ost b e a u tifu l clas sics o f M id d le Eastern lite ra - f 'jj p a C ' 'x ture came to be F w ritten in a lan- gauge — A ra m a ic -once the " v u l- fa r ” patois of the | | .. - housewives to And out why they w eren’ t s e rvin g m ore ric e at th e ir d in n e r tables. He learned that they were tire d o f burned pots and pans and s tic k y g u m m y rice. “ If we could only buy canned rice , ready to heat and s e rv e ." they w ould sigh. M alek trie d to oblige. F o r several months, he cooked rice and canned r ' ce — in his own home, in indus­ tr ia l kitchens, in governm ent la b ­ oratories. B u t the rice in v a ria b ly looked and tasted lik e flour paste Staining Shingle Ituufs Thorough staining of shingle roofs ■very two or three years Is a rein* tlv e ly easy and Inexpensive prac­ tice which may add y c u ri to the life of the roof Shingle stains come In various a ttra ctive colors. Egyptian Belle« E gyptian ladles in the days of Cleopatra painted th e ir lower eye­ lids green and the upper lids, lashes end eyebrows black. The palms of th e ir hands and the soles of th e ir feet were dyed with henna. Long M e m o ry A id s R e s e a rc h The same man J »-.j One day. however, he trie d cool. answered both M ¿2*1 ing and canning the patna v a rie ty those questions ~J R o f rice fro m India. The results were (or me and it's L g& som ewhat m ore encouraging. The q u ite possible canned kernels seemed less gela- that had he not L ’ tinous. alm ost flu ffy. Then he re- Peen able to an- « m em bered som ething he'd read he H H B H h MBM about the natives o f Assam. It 1 " lve Baukhage able to answer eith e r It w.-.s the inventor, him self. M Yonan-M alek who enlightened me In two and a h a lf hours of the most ch a rm in g and in fo rm a tiv e conver­ sation in w hich I have indulged in m any a strike-darkened, p o litic s - clouded Washington afternoon. B rie fly , he has invented a process w hich keeps the n u tri­ tive value of rice in the ke rn e l, boosts the ric e yie ld by 25 per cent, cheats riee-eating beetles and weevils out of th e ir annual m illio n d o lla r banquet, but probably most im p o rta n t of a ll, leaves the V ita m in B fa cto rs in each g ra in of rice in ta c t. Since the rice-eating countries ac­ count fo r h a lf the w o rld 's popula­ tion and since m a ln u tritio n is a s e ri­ ous problem in a ll of them , the in ­ vention seems a little less than re v ­ He soaked the ric e fo r days. o lu tio n a ry in its p o te n tia litie s . I t is When he needed to p a rb o il the ric e already the basis of a going concern. in steam, he found an unused s te r­ iliz e r at a n e a rb y hospital where the Po lish V ita m in s internes w ere glad to help h im . Even O ut o f P ro d u c t his neighbors in his a p a rtm e n t M y acquaintance w ith ric e has b u ild in g w ere on hand to help h im been a nodding one, fu rth e re d by spread the parb o ile d ric e on the pe rio d ic v isits to Chinese re sta u ­ ro o f to d ry . Now he had his precious parboiled rants. When I ate the u n d e rp in n in g o f the ce le ry sprouts and a s trip s o f paddy rice. B u t the tough hulls on chicken, I d id n ’ t realize th a t the the kernels posed a p roblem . An ancient Pharaohs o f E g y p t w ould ' o rd in a ry ric e m ill handles rough have approved its polished w h ite ­ ric e in carload lots. The o n ly w ay ness. I d id n ’ t realize th a t th a t pol­ fo r M a le k to m ill a hundred pounds ished whiteness had been achieved was to find a hand m ill. W ell, he by 19 d iffe re n t cleaning, m illin g and found a hand m ill and g round' the p o lish in g operations. And I ce r­ h u lls fro m the rice. The ric e was j ta in ly d id n 't guess th a t those 19 op­ canned, and this tim e the kernels erations had robbed m y ric e of 76 th a t ro lle d out were h ard, da rk, ; p e r cent o f its th ia m in e , 56 per cent chocolate colored and separate. A t th a t tim e , M alek d id n ’ t know of its rib o fla v in and 63 per cent of its niacin — and m ost o f its food j he had a c c id e n ta lly d riv e n the w a­ ter-soluble bran layers in to the rice I value. W hite rice , it seems, is a fetish ke rn e l itse lf. He only knew th is rice that goes back to the days o f the was d is tin c tly d iffe re n t than any he Pharaohs when w hite was the sym ­ had canned before. W hat he had to do then was to ■ bol of ro y a lty . Some unnamed chef w ith a deep sense of the fitness of determ ine the length o f tim e to soak j things d id n 't lik e the idea o f his the rice , w hat te m p e ra tu re to use, Pharaoh p a rta kin g of crude, ple- under w h a t steam pressure to p a r- j bian-looking rice. So he ordered the b oil it. It took M a le k m onths, w o rk ­ ro ya l m ille rs to polish the g ra in to a in g w ith m a k e s h ift eq u ipm e n t to p e a rly whiteness. The m ille rs com ­ h it upon the rig h t fo rm u la . F in a lly he obtained ric e which, plied. never re a liz in g they were pol­ ishing the food value out o f the food. when canned, cam e out flu ffy , w ith each g ra in separate and p e rfe c tly I The poor people of E g y p t went tender. The la ye rs o f b ra n d riv e n I on eating th e ir rough unpolished in to the ke rn e l im p a rte d a d iffe r- I ric e . And nobody guessed w hy ent n u t-like bran fla v o r—and the I they were h e a lth ie r than th e ir long cooking at high te m p e ra tu re I ru le rs . This situ a tio n lasted had m ade the ric e ste rile . B u t the j u n til the French re vo lu tio n when best p a rt of a ll—w hich he discov- I the re vo lu tio n a rie s insisted on ered through scie n tific analysis— I th e ir rig h t to keep up w ith the was the fa c t th a t this new ric e was | ro y a l Joneses. They wanted pol­ u nbelievably ric h in v ita m in s . ished w h ite ric e too— (and w hite The a rm y and navy w ere in te r- * b re a d /. They got it, and have ested. and M a le k offered them his been g e ttin g it e ver since. The patents fo r the w a r's d u ra tio n . A t custom has persisted u n til today the present tim e he’s busy licensing when we s till re q u ire our rice rice m ills here and abroad to use m ille rs to s trip aw ay m ore than his process. h a lf the v ita m in s fro m our rice and w heat. About the only th in g he has This is not so im p o rta n t in potato le ft to w o rry about now is how and bread-conscious A m e rica , but to obtain the ric e in o rd e r to in o rie n ta l countries w here fre ­ process it. The rice su p p ly, as a any g ro ce ry-h a u n tin g housewife £ q u e n tly the w ord ‘ ‘ric e ’ ’ and "fo o d ” are synonymous, i t ’ s som ething else w ill know, is not w hat i t used 1 to be. The w o rld supply of ric e ’ again. Six hundred th ir ty m illio n j o rie n ta ls d e rive m ore than 40 per is short th is year, and a la rg e R cent of th e ir food calories fro m ric e ! percentage of ric e raised in the D — and i f the ric e is polished, they U nited States has been allocated hl are losing v ita l n u tritio n a l values to countries w here ric e is a sta- tfl a t e ve ry m eal. pie food. This s c a rc ity explains w hy rice , along w ith sugar and I M a le k became rice-conscious back in 1938 when one o f his frie n d s syrup, is the only food s till re- * w ished aloud th a t he could figure m a in in g under p ric e co n tro l. o u t some w a y to increase ric e con­ B u t once the w o rld supply In- I sum ption in the U nited States. creases, th e re ’11 be m ore rice, m ore |f A t th a t tim e , tons o f ric e were n u tritio u s rice , m ore fla v o rfu l rice . I ro ttin g in the C a lifo rn ia rice F u rth e rm o re , M a le k guarantees S fields fo r w a n t of a m a rk e t. Each th a t the brand-new b rid e w o n 't have ||i season, th is c o u n try ’ s rice grow ers to m ake any la st-m in u te sw itches W w ere being le ft w ith a surplus of in the d in n er m enu because the ric e i a t le a st three m illio n bags o f rice . she cooked tu rned out a ll w rong. I The in d u s try was slow ly going O hl w hat about the A ra m a ic l 9 broke. classics? 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