A couple of years back, a good friend, or more precisely her publisher, suggested that she and I collaborate on a book about the cuisines of China’s Grand Canal. The Grand Canal is exactly what the name describes. It is indeed a canal and at just over 1800 kilometers long, makes a pretty solid caseContinue reading “Cuisine along China’s Grand Canal”
Category Archives: China
Xian 苋, The tasty surprise lurking in your garden
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”
辣子鸡 Chicken among the red lanterns
Includes: one recipe and one uncle joke
Sichuan cooking school: school life
Cooking is hard and distinctly unglamorous work
Sichuan red oil 红油
Red oil – hongyou 红油 – is the heart of Sichuan cuisine
Cooking school–Sichuan edition
Every day, I leave class smelling like fish guts and chili oil. It’s heaven.
Tom’s big adventure
Would you like to hear about my daily trek to the coffee shop across the street? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Online teaching is not prop comedy
There was no contingency plan. There should always be a contingency plan…
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.
Heze sheep bone soup
This soup was some of the best I have ever had. The bones gave it an incredible richness and a milky white color
Thomas David DuBois 