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This put me in mind of a recent New Yorker article by the anthropologist Manvir Singh. The article is about the efforts of linguists and folklorists to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European mythology which links folk tales and gods from India to Ireland. The serpent-slaying storm god, the Sky Father, the Divine Twins: these figures mutated and multiplied across cultures but retained their essential forms.
Microbiologists have been growing microbes on agar plates for nearly 150 years, but agar’s discovery dates back to a happy accident in a mid-17th-century kitchen. Legend has it that on a cold winter day, a Japanese innkeeper cooked tokoroten soup, a Chinese agar seaweed recipe known in Japan for centuries. After the meal, the innkeeper discarded the leftovers outside and noticed the next morning that the sun had turned the defrosting jelly into a porous mass. Intrigued, the innkeeper was said to have boiled the substance again, reconstituting the jelly. Since this discovery, agar has become a staple in many Japanese desserts, from yokan to anmitsu.
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