Technical glitch, and Twitter
Apologies to anyone who has been trying to use the contact page on my website – we updated it recently, and the contact page got left…
Barshu awayday
Last week Barshu (the Sichuanese restaurant where I work as consultant) ran a team-building awayday for some corporate clients in the beautiful private room on the…
Revolutionary dinner parties
I’ve been going through some old notebooks, and found an account of a supper I had in 2005 at a crazy Chengdu restaurant called ‘The mess…
Brown rice
A study in the US is suggesting that replacing white rice with brown rice could cut the risk of diabetes – findings that might provoke some…
The true pepper
My acupuncturist friend Simon came for lunch the other day, and one of the dishes I cooked was that old favourite mapo doufu (Pock-Marked Old Woman’s…