Musning is upset. Really upset. Ajinomoto’s brand of the popular food additive known as MSG has been a fixture in her kitchen. When the Indonesian Council of Ulamas declared the so-called ‘Red Bowl’ as unfit for Muslims to eat, she had a lot of stock left. What to do with it?

And just as the good Muslim woman was trying to make up her mind, President Abdurrahman Wahid went and threw a new spanner in the works. According to Gus