Blood sacrifice–a happy story

Before I begin, let me assure everyone that the story does end well

Sichuan cooking school: school life

Cooking is hard and distinctly unglamorous work

Tom’s big adventure

Would you like to hear about my daily trek to the coffee shop across the street? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Heze sheep bone soup

This soup was some of the best I have ever had. The bones gave it an incredible richness and a milky white color

Tom teaches a cooking class!

Squeezed in between classes about composting and Chinese medicine, we made a basic fresh cheese, followed by two simple dishes of beets and kabocha squash

Tongliao! The biggest cattle market in China

The Shebotu market is still about half the size it will be at its peak later in the summer

Product review–Wasabi flavored Oreos

Oh for the love of God…

Hangzhou Food and Beverage Innovation Forum (食品饮料创新论坛)

Forget the Shanghai Auto Show. The real fun was in Hangzhou.

Montana!

Do you have a sister? I have two, and as luck would have it, they’re both pretty great. Unfortunately, they live pretty far apart, so it’s kind of hard to see them in the same place. So when my little sister in Montana told me that my big sister was coming out from Indiana, and…

Food and culture in Yunnan

Everything passed through Yunnan: goods, armies and culture.