Created roughly 4,000-5,000 years ago in China, the earliest versions of something like chopsticks were used for cooking (they’re perfect for reaching into pots full of hot water or oil) and were most ...

Chopsticks are a pair of sticks, usually made of wood, used for eating Asian food. In Chinese, the old word for "chopsticks,",and also in some varieties of modern Chinese such as Hokkien, was zhù (箸 ...

AMERICUS, Ga. - Every week the factory floor of Georgia Chopsticks churns out 10 million chopsticks that are sold in China. But, as CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports, the chopsticks are ...

China's Ministry of Finance announces a new plan to save millions of trees. It's imposing a tax on chopsticks. The Chinese — and overseas lovers of Chinese food — use 15 billion disposable wooden ...

SHANGHAI — Is China at a fork in the road? Beijing this week slapped a 5% tax on disposable chopsticks, dealing what many Chinese say was a powerful gut punch. In cafes here Thursday, people dropped ...

While Indochinese cuisine may, at first, sound like a slightly unusual, if curious combination, it is more historically and easily explained than most food “fusion.” Geographically, the borders of ...

"Made in China" is something you see on a lot of things for sale in America. But a company in Georgia has decided to turn the tables. It's making and exporting chopsticks to the Chinese. Philip ...

Reporting from Beijing — When news surfaced last month that Panda Express was considering introducing a new half-fork, half-chopsticks plastic utensil known as the chork, reaction among American ...

It is important to note that chopsticks are used in many different parts of the world, in many different cultures. While the principles of chopstick etiquette are similar in many of these places, the ...