This post was updated on July 25, 2010. NEWS FLASH! WHEAT-FREE BULGUR; GLUTEN-FREE BULGUR AND COUSCOUS SUBSTITITES (see end of this post!). This time of the year almost always keep a grain salad on hand for snacking.Grain salads are hearty, filling, nutritious, and, the way I make them, low in fat.rom what I've read, it can be used just like wheat bulgur. If you must eat gluten-free, you can substitute millet or quinoa for bulgur and couscous. This recipe from Whole Foods explains how to cook millet, especially for a salad. Here's how to cook quinoa.
The main impact of Tet was to harden US civilians' resolve against the war. This is because Tet, on the ground, was an absolute disaster for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. We had been led to believe the Vietnamese couldn't launch an offensive like this, and when it happened it shocked the Americans.
In the early hours of 31st January 1968, 70,000 North Vietnamese soldiers, together with guerrilla fighters of the NLF, launched one of the most daring military campaigns in history. The Tet Offensive was the real turning point in the Vietnam War.On its 40 th anniversary, Alan Woods analyses the events that led to the Vietnam War and the significance of the Tet Offensive in bringing about the defeat of US imperialism, and draws some parallels with Iraq.n the night of January 31, 1968 the North Vietnamese army and the NLF launched the Tet Offensive. The NLF broke the truce they had made for the New Year festivities and fought its way into more than one hundred cities, including the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon.