The real spring roll…
…or at least the most ancient kind. You can read my piece about fresh, unfried spring rolls in today’s Financial Times Weekend magazine – it includes…
Curbing our greed for meat
Scientists are again urging people in the developed world to eat less meat for environmental reasons. Here’s a quote from a piece on the Guardian website…
Quiz time!
Can anyone guess what this is? (see picture on the right) Clue: I was given it at the end of a grand banquet in Chengdu a…
Revolutionary dinner parties
I’ve been going through some old notebooks, and found an account of a supper I had in 2005 at a crazy Chengdu restaurant called ‘The mess…