Telegraph ex-pat book club
‘Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper’ has been chosen as the first book featured by the international ex-pat wing of the Daily Telegraph’s website. This is great,…
Official gluttony
According to an academic quoted in the official Chinese English-language newspaper, The China Daily, Chinese officials spend an annual average of about five hundred BILLION yuan…
Braving the shark
A journalist friend of mine passed through London last week on his way back from Iceland, with all kinds of goodies, including a sheep’s head, horse…
Goji berries, a.k.a. gouqizi or Chinese wolfberries
I’m quoted in Wednesday’s Boston Globe, on the culinary uses of trendy ‘superfood’ goji berries, otherwise known as 枸 æžÂ å  , gouqizi, or Chinese wolfberries. The…
Chairman Mao’s red-braised pork
The Independent newspaper in Britain used this recipe from my Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook to accompany an article about… chillies. This is Georgia Glynn-Smith’s beautiful photograph of…