A Devon idyll of cakes, cooking and conversation
I’m just back home after a week of intensive teaching and eating in Devon, where writer, designer, cook, photographer and restaurateur Alastair Hendy and I were running…
You say tomayto I say tomahta
Last week I gave a talk at the Free Word Centre in London about the challenges of translating into English the language of Chinese food and…
Grapple factor
I’m pleased to see that an American blog has picked up on the term ‘grapple factor’ – a term invented by my father to describe foods…
Why I write
New listing on the That’s Shanghai website, as part of a series of Q&As with China-focused writers.