Chinese Tourists Don’t Eat European Food
This week’s Economist has a fascinating piece on what Chinese tourists seek out in Europe. And at just the point where you are beginning to think the author is being…
Read moreThin rice starch batter pastry from the 6th century AD
Just look at this. Wow. Have to re-think lots of things. ca. 540 AD. Recipe (not direct translation). Take refined rice glutinous rice starch, add enough water to make a…
Read moreBread, Celestial Made. Or Bread’s Long Journey to Hawaii
Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time. This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840. If it’s hard to read the words,…
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