at home in…, w| Gerald Zhang-Schmidt

Of course we eat, whether we run or not. You live, you eat. Running and eating, however, often seem to run counter to each other, even while these two sides of life could just as well run in tandem and make for better living. [Sorry about the running gags, can't resist.] After all, for all [...]

Soda pop – carbonated soft drinks – have become so common, so normal a part of life, as to be of little notice. They are, however, a rather recent invention – and one that is a highly relevant element in itself, and a great symbol, of the problems with modern diets. (As has, since the [...]

There could not possibly have been a time when eating was as “unnatural” a matter as it is today. Food Just Is After all, for the longest time, having any food at all was a rather stronger concern than what particular food would be particularly good for you. Therefore, “You’ll eat what’s put on the [...]

I’ve often heard it said that people who migrated to other lands brought with them their seeds and their songs. Even in these times of globalization, food continues to play a major role in making identities. It is particularly in the straight line from garden to kitchen, and particularly with vegetables, that connections both to [...]

One cannot escape the importance of food in China, whether it be as a foreigner seeking well-known comfort foods from home (poor bastards), a Chinese steeped in culinary traditions of one region to such a point that food from another part of the country is outright exotic (and not necessarily if that part is Xinjiang), [...]