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Article: SOY SAUCE IS RELIGION AT NODA PLANT EMPEROR'S BREW FAR MORE THAN SEASONING.(NEWS)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 3, 2000
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The emperor's soy sauce is ready.
The beans have fermented a full year in huge wooden vats. Workers have strained the sauce by hand through pure cotton filters. Trained tasters have given their nods of approval.
Now bring a saucer of the amber liquid to your lips and see for yourself: a single drop fills your mouth with flavor. Hours later, the salty tang still lingers in your throat.
Soy sauce is just a seasoning to most folks. But at Kikkoman Corp., the world's biggest producer, it's much more: a brew fit for gods, the backbone of East Asian cuisine, even a unifier of nations.
``We are selling soy sauce to 100 countries,'' Kikkoman ...