Delicious chocolate chip biscuits are high-fat traps that trigger a “cycle of fear”, dragging us into one nightmare after another, saturated in dread; the “crunch” of crisps is a crisp outlet for suppressed anger, providing a hollow sense of security; sugar-free cola is a “happy liar”, like a false perfect…
In this episode of “Food Talk”, host Xiaojing and Foodthink’s Mei Ying interview two young people who have just completed their internships: An Tian and San Qi. Once nature educators and young teachers, they travelled to Yinlin Village in Guangdong to pursue their agricultural dreams—a place that boasts not only…
The eldest sister in Chexu Village on the Jinsha River says: “Everything is my own, except the iron wok.” A filling-less mooncake holds a year of farm work—wheat, oil, bees, waiting for roses and gardenias to bloom in turn, then a slow bake at the open hearth.
Growing up beside the assembly line and ovens of a small mooncake factory in rural Hunan, I refuse every Mid-Autumn mooncake, reprocessing those cloyingly sweet, scorched memories once more.
Director Liu Taifeng of Another Hopeful Day: riders in debt on day one, programmers locked into appraisals, restaurants forced to inflate reviews – algorithms strap different social strata into the same chariot, and two years on, the industry is still worsening.
Unlike last year’s brief Typhoon Doksuri downpour, this year’s relentless North China rain has nearly wiped out leafy vegetables for Liu Gang, owner of Xiaoliushu Farm in Shunyi. Autumn planting is nearly a month late, and vegetable prices have risen 40% nationwide.
Xia Lili and her son Lemao savour a rare summer crop of old-variety yellow peas from Jinzi’s one-person farm in Xiaojin County, Aba Prefecture, with simple pea rice recipes for summer and winter.
In August 2024, two feature films about the food delivery industry were released. Simultaneously, Hangzhou saw two sudden incidents involving delivery riders: in August, a clash between a rider and a security guard sparked collective protests among nearby riders; in September, a “top-tier” rider died suddenly on his e-bike, triggering…
Inspired by Nichole, a US permaculture practitioner in Texas, Zhang Yiqing learns permaculture, stops using herbicides and chemical fertilisers, grows food on large suburban front- and back-yard lawns, and reflects on American lawn culture.
From saccharin and Agent Orange to Roundup and genetically modified seeds, its 115-year history shows how new agribusiness products created fresh problems while US regulation arrived only after harm.
