A wide variety of spellings exist for the English usage of the term, e.g., tshotshke, tshatshke, tchachke, tchotchka, tchatchka, chachke, tsotchke, chotski, or chochke; the standard Yiddish transliteration is tsatske or tshatshke. In Israeli Hebrew it is often spelled ×¦××¦×§×¢, [Ëtsats.ke], with a tsade instead of teth-shin, as in Yiddish.
At first, corn was only a garden curiosity in Europe, but it soon began to be recognized as a valuable food crop. Within a few years, it spread throughout France, Italy, and all of southeastern Europe and northern Africa.
This is followed by the European Union countries that produced 6.8% of the worldâs corn and then by Brazil that produced 6.2% of the worldâs corn. Japan is the top importer of U.S. corn, followed by Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan. Livestock feed is the top use for U.S. corn with 5.9 billion bushels of consumption.