Another Voice on President Hu’s White House Dinner

This time from Yong Cheng of UC Irvine.  Read the whole post here. A quintessentially American meal is perhaps more appropriate than a Chinese feast with dishes like shark’s fin…

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Regional Cuisine as Cultural Inertia. From Adam Balic

In huge haste because I’m on the point of driving to the US and my (expletives deleted) Mac Book computer is on the brink, but I really wanted to send…

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Parallel Universes: The Fería del Libro in Guadalajara

For the second time this year, the first being in Panamá Gastronómica, I’ve had the feeling of being in a universe parallel to the English-speaking world.  Great events, well-attended (half…

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