Family food culture, local food memories, workers’ table stories, and personal relationships with food.
I. I. First Snow It was already the eleventh lunar month and the first snow had fallen on the small town, bringing a sudden chill that even the weather forecast had failed to predict. At the time, we had just emerged from a temporary lockdown a week prior; while shops…
Having felt cooped up during the pandemic, people are longing to reconnect with nature. On the fringes of our cities, picnicking, camping, and nature education are growing in popularity. In such a rapidly changing world, are ‘the countryside’ and ‘nature’ merely passing fads for today’s Chinese families and children, or…
I. I. Mother’s Hearth Leaving Lijiang Ancient City to the northwest and passing Lashi Lake, we could see the silver-white peaks of the Jade Dragon and Haba snow mountains in the distance as we travelled through the high mountain valleys along the banks of the Jinsha River. Mid-October marks the…
