Milestones Jan. 22, 2007
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DIED. Momofuku Ando, 96, Japanese food executive who invented instant noodles, now a dietary staple of college students worldwide and a multibillion-dollar industry that sold 85 million packages in 2005; in Osaka. Ando was inspired to create the product--considered by many to be the country's best invention--by the long lines of people waiting to buy black-market ramen in postwar Japan. He introduced chicken ramen in 1958 and later the wildly popular Cup Noodles. Of his success he said, "Peace prevails when food suffices."
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