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The Impossible Dictionary of Truth
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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I Have Seen The Future and it is a Chinese Vegetable Washing Machine
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Cool Footnote # 2: Pertaining to the promiscuity of rice
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In Praise of Taiwan
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The Road to Shu is Hard
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Joan of Sichuan
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Cool Footnote: Janet Yellen is a Daoist
This past Saturday evening, China’s Global Times reports, Janet Yellen, the Secretary of the Treasury, ate mapo tofu in Beijing. Sichuan cuisine, we are…
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"Only You Can Prevent A Forest"
From the jungles of Vietnam to the Cultural Revolution: the continuing adventures of Agent Soybean
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The Headwaters of Dragon Ball Z
While eating breakfast this morning, I read an obituary of the Japanese manga writer Akira Toriyama, most famous around the world for the anime TV shows…
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Cool Footnote: The Robert Heinlein Soybean Time Travel Machine
The article in the New York Times reporting Nixon’s ban on soybean exports on June 28, 1973, was, as we used to say when we still read printed…
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Richard Nixon's Anchovy Problem
A story of price signals, seed collectors, extreme climate events, and war.
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Go With The Low Flow
The Principle of Non-Action as Applied to Chili Sauce
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Cool Footnote: Sandbar Fixation
This morning while reading Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China, by Robert Marks, I stumbled on a…
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The Cleaver and the Butterfly
The Cleaver and the Butterfly
Sichuan food, globalization, and the Dao.

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