Long-life chopsticks?
According to this piece in the Los Angeles Times, Greenpeace China estimates that 100 acres of trees need to be felled every 24 hours to keep…
Observer accolade for my Sichuan book
My first book, Sichuan Cookery (published in the US as Land of Plenty), was chosen by the Observer Food Monthly as one of the ten best…
Of salt and sodium
A blog reader called Tom emailed me recently to say that he was enjoying cooking from my books, but: I am trying to figure out whether…
Chinese food slurred again
I’ve just written a guest post for the Guardian’s Word of Mouth blog, which you can read here.
Why not eat insects?
A fascinating piece in the Guardian today about an FAO policy paper on the eating of insects. Apparently, senior figures in the UN and elsewhere are…