Blog 5-7: where does it all come from?

yes its late but here is Blog 5. according to Wikipedia.com, the fish itself is the Atlantic Cod that is gray-ish in color when it is fully matured and it is in the "vulnerable" stage which is about half-way to extinction. most schools of cod are located in the Northeastern Atlantic. cod can also be found along the coast of Greenland, which is currently melting, according to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. several European nations caught hundreds of thousands tons in the 1970s. for more information on the Atlantic Cod, click on the words.

rice is a plant that mainly grows in Asia and Africa. this crop came to the Untied States in 1694 in South Carolina when the US brought over the slaves from Africa. the Spanish brought it to South America in the 18th century, which could explain why Hispanics eat rice almost every day. but different types of rice are grown in different places. wild rice, which is what i like best, originated from the island Sulawesi of Indonesia. forests have been cleared on the main island of Java for rice cultivation.
wherever rice is grown, its always originally brown. that is the husk that the rice grows in on the plant. the Japanese used a funny machine to "polish" the rice, which is the process of removing the husk and he germ from the brown rice and making it "white" rice.

onions grow almost everywhere. in acident Egypt, onions were buried with the dead because it was believed that the strong smell of the onion would "bring breath back to the dead" (wikipedia.com). in the Middle Ages, people used onions to pay their rent and doctors then prescribed it to infertial women to help start a family.
i know everyone is wondering why onions make you cry. the reason why someone would tear while cutting onions is because onions have large cells and when they are broken, they release a liquid which kind of makes your hands sticky and it has a smell that when it gets in your eyes it makes you tear. my eyes were immune to that for a good 3 years. i remember i took culinary arts in high school and we cut onions a lot.