Food Rules China
One cannot escape the importance of food in China, whether it be as a foreigner seeking well-known comfort foods from home (poor bastards), a Chinese steeped in culinary traditions of one region to...
View ArticleCooking class…
Just a note: The new semester is about to start, but I’m embarking on new writing. First up: ChiliCult’s “Chilli-Laboratory” will get Chinese cooking class (or at least notes about cooking in China)...
View ArticleLife Lessons in a Wood Stove
This winter was our first Central European rather than Hunan-Chinese winter (for my wife; for me, the first in a while), with temperatures not only going down to around freezing, but down to -20C, but...
View ArticleEveryday Fitness: Dealing with Diet
There could not possibly have been a time when eating was as “unnatural” a matter as it is today. Food Just Is After all, for the longest time, having any food at all was a rather stronger concern than...
View ArticleLessons of … a Pumpkin
The dead of winter, turning of the sun… pumpkins from the fall garden still stored in a cool place, a memory of the last garden year. First, the pumpkin plants almost get destroyed by slugs. Then, they...
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