Spices and Seasonings. Japanese cuisine uses the following five basic flavours; salt, sugar, vinegar, soya sauce and miso. However, as with any other cuisine there is also a range of herbs, spices and other ingredients used to enhance the flavours present in the dish.oot ginger is used ground in Japanese cuisine and mixed with soya to marinate pork prior to sauteing sautÃ©ing, it as the flavours of pork and ginger complement one another. Well it is also served on top of a pyramid of (Daikon japanese white) radish to put in the tempura dipping. sauce
Fidel Castro: Cuba's revolutionary leader. Comandante Fidel. Fidel Castro survived more than 600 CIA assassination plots to become the longest serving non-royal leader of the 20th Century. As leader of the Cuban Revolution, he created a communist state in Americaâs backyard that still survives today. To his enemies he was a ruthless autocrat whose close links to the Soviet Union brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power.