A revolution is NOT a dinner party…but a dinner party could start a revolution?

A Revolution is Not a Dinner Party – Mao Zedong Alarmists decry the “secret Farm Bill,” although the failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction has now rendered it moot except possibly as an example of the surprising notion that politicians can occasionally work in a bi-partisan and bi-cameral fashion on America’s own [...]

Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook

Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province This is my all-time favorite English-language Chinese cookbook. Written by Fuchsia Dunlop, one of the few (if any other!) non-Chinese people to have attended the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, it contains gorgeous photographs and a wealth of information, from descriptions of ingredients particular to Hunanese cuisine and [...]