Foodthink Author Kouzi A determined farmer-trekker and village brewmaster. Full-time foodie, part-time farmer, and amateur writer. Some people might look at the title and think it’s wrong: ‘Isn’t the New Year supposed to make you put on a few pounds? How on earth can you lose weight…
In the first instalment of the Foodie Philosophy of Villain’s Valley series, I mentioned that a single pot of White Dew soup requires ten ingredients, nine of which are home-grown. I viewed “self-sufficiency” as the ideal for life in Villain’s Valley; on the surface, the self-sufficiency rate reached a staggering…
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…
