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Edwin Rutashobya
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Why Sea Urchins Are So Expensive
About 20 000 pounds of sea urchins are delivered to the Santa Barbara factory each week, but it's not until you crack open the spiky shells that you see what makes sea urchins so valuable. The gonads Just one 200-gram tray of urchin gonads like this can cost $100, and some in Japan can sell for over five times that. Sea urchins are one of the few seafoods still hand-harvested by divers today, and in recent years, masses of them have taken over the seabeds of California. So why are there so many urchins, and how, despite this seemingly huge supply, are they still so expensive? Sea urchin, or uni, is a prized delicacy in several parts of the world.
By Edwin Rutashobyaabout a year ago in Feast
Building a Kingdom
A Persian prince named Cyrus In the year 401 BC, at the height of the period known as the Greek Golden Age, a Persian prince named Cyrus the Younger was fighting a bitter civil war against his brother and was trying to seize the throne of Persia. To help him in this fight, he hired a mercenary army of mostly Greek soldiers—10,000 men who traveled the long road to Persia to fight on his behalf. Among them was the Greek writer and adventurer named Xenophon, and he later wrote about this expedition in his work entitled Anabasis. Xenophon and his companions met the enemy Persian army at the battle of Cunaxa,on the banks of the Euphrates River, and they gave the Persian prince Cyrus value for his money. The Greek heavy troops beat the Persians back and delivered a victory for the man who had hired them. But when the dust of battle had cleared,they heard the bad news. Cyrus the Younger had been killed,apparently knocked from his horse by a young common soldier. His claim to the throne of Persia had died with him, and the war was over. For the Greeks, this must have been heartbreaking. foreign land. Now Xenophon and what remained of his 10,000 men had to find their way home to Greece. They knew that their only route was to reach the Black Sea, which lay across the wide deserts of what is today Iraq. They were terrified. They had few supplies, and the enemy army was already pursuing them close behind. They hastily elected some leaders from among them, and Xenophon was one of them. He told his men to throw away everything they carried,shedding weight in order to outrun their enemies. So they pelted across the deserts and the fertile river lands dotted with date palms, following the course of the Tigris north.
By Edwin Rutashobyaabout a year ago in Education