A Sino-Moroccan feast in London
Anissa Helou beat me to it with her blog post about today’s culinary collaboration! Anyway, here’s mine. Anissa (a brilliant cook and food writer specialising in…
The lonely life of the Chinese chef
Recently I went with the head chef of Barshu, Zhang Xiaozhong, to give some presentations at the Worlds of Flavour conference at the Culinary Institute of…
You say tomayto I say tomahta
Last week I gave a talk at the Free Word Centre in London about the challenges of translating into English the language of Chinese food and…
A Shanghainese dream
An August Saturday night in a flat in Wapping, East London… and I was privileged to share the best Chinese meal I’ve ever had outside China.…
Chinese vegetables in Oxfordshire
A glorious morning yesterday at the Worton Organic Garden and Farm near my parents’ house in Oxford. I brought back purple sprouting broccoli, basil, multicoloured tomatoes…
Books interview
The Browser have just published an interview with me about five books on Chinese food.
‘Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper’ out in paperback!
My most recent book, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper, is now out in paperback in the UK and worldwide! (The US paperback edition came out in…
Pop-up Chinese takeaway?
After the second, exhausting day of a three-day  photo-shoot in my home, I ended up this evening, as I did yesterday evening, with a fridge full…
A Chinese cheese tasting
My piece about inviting some chefs in Shaoxing (known for its stinky beancurd and other smelly fermented foods) to taste a selection of fairly whiffy Neal’s…
A little interview on Polish TV
I did this little interview (via Skype)Â with a Polish journalist, Ola Lazar, who presents a show about cookery books, while I was in Chengdu last month: