Any gardener who knows the herculean effort needed to keep aggressive weeds from choking out their dainty heirloom lettuces has at some point asked “why don’t I just eat these instead?” It turns out that you can, at least sometimes. For three years, we farmed a little plot of land about an hour outside ofContinue reading “Xian 苋, The tasty surprise lurking in your garden”
Category Archives: Beijing
Cooling menu
Sour pickles on a hot summer day
Elm bark noodles 榆皮面
The noodles didn’t taste like much, and felt somehow inorganic. Nor was their brief stay in my gut a particularly pleasant one.
Beijing coronavirus updates
new policies in the capital
Beijing’s on lockdown, so what’s for dinner?
Traffic in Beijing has stopped, and everyone is afraid to leave the house.
So what are people eating?
Beijing in a time of coronavirus
In 2003, I had just started working at the National University of Singapore, and not long after that, something else came to Singapore–SARS.