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Or: How everything I knew about hogs in Chinese homes was wrong. The Cross-stitched Pig, Part III
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The Road to Shu is Hard
The road to Shu is hard. Harder than climbing the sky. On a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Chengdu, in April 2019, a few weeks into the…
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Tapping the Mapo Doufu Source
A dish that contains multitudes, collapses peripheries and explains the rise and fall of empires.
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A Unified Theory of Pork Belly
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Biking to Costco as an Example of Attunement with the Way
AKA: Exercise is good.
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The Cleaver and Xinjiang
A tale of Muslim princesses, wuxia derring do, and Qing colonialism.
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The Biotech Soybeans of Lady Dai
Fermentation. Transformation. Immortality. The Soybean is Everything, Part II
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A Supreme Court Pork Surprise
I am stunned and delighted to share with readers the news that this morning the Supreme Court upheld California’s law against the sale of pork sourced…
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The Soybean is Everything
A tale of paradox and revelation. Part I
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Confessions of a Sierra Pale Ale Sinner
There is no escape from the dark workings of historical predetermination
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Kunta Kinte and Taiwanese Democracy
How "Roots" changed the history of East Asia... at least for a little while
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The Cleaver and the Butterfly
The Cleaver and the Butterfly
Sichuan food, globalization, and the Dao.

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