Tag: food
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 23, 2021
Cultivating Sustainable Solutions to Food Inflation
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Food prices in 2021 have increased to their highest levels in six years. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which publishes the Food Price Index each month, food prices in January marked the sharpest month-over-month and year-over-year rise in a decade. Prices have continued to rise sharply since, and April’s figures
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 21, 2021
You Can Learn Everything You Need To Know About A Person By Their Go-To Chinese Food Order
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What does this graphic tell you? Three simple things: 1. Large is fancy as fuck. I have never heard of Szechuan string beans nor would I ever dream of ordering something green when getting Chinese food. But that’s our Large. 2. That Clem fella believes in playing nothing but the hits nothing but the hits
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 15, 2021
Food truck festival was successful in its diversity
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Last month, Lumberton held it’s first food truck festival in downtown Lumberton. By many standards, it was a highly successful event, but I think one of its best contributions to Robeson County was overlooked. Thousands of people attended the April 25 event, despite being rescheduled from the previous day because of a chance of rain.
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 5, 2021
Northern YouTube food critic visits Chinese takeaway famed for its ‘savage’ responses to customers
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In a crossover that will make Avengers: Endgame blush, two recent viral stars from the UK have crossed paths. Last week, we reported on Danny Manlin of Leeds, whose YouTube reviews of Northern takeaways have turned him into an unlikely star. His candid style and sense of humour and willingness to eat his food on
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 23, 2021
Meet Mike Chen, the YouTube food star who just moved to this Dallas suburb
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“You get hungry every day, so you might as well film it.” That’s the attitude of Mike Chen, whose full-time job is to post videos on YouTube from his food adventures all over the world. His videos — many that eclipse 1 million views each — will highlight Dallas-area business more than ever, now that
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 15, 2021
New San Antonio late-night eatery Buddhafull Belly to deliver Chinese food until 2 a.m.
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click image Unsplash / Call Me Fred San Antonio Munchies and Sari-Sari Filipino Restaurant will offer Chinese food until 2 a.m. Local food-focused influencer Alex Serna — known on social media as San
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 7, 2021
This top-rated Gourmia food dehydrator has never been cheaper
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Our family has been using a food dehydrator regularly for several years… which is a statement I never thought I’d make. Sure, I’d always heard that homemade jerky and fruit leather was incredibly good, but the convenience of buying both at the store always won out. But just a few weeks into owning a food
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 5, 2021
China offers free food to spur citizens to get vaccinated
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In China, where the coronavirus outbreak has been largely contained since the middle of last year and where vaccine makers initially focused on exporting doses, the domestic rollout has been slow, with only about 4 percent of the population vaccinated, according to health officials. Ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the politically important
Written by Linda D. MohlerMarch 24, 2021
Racism Toward Chinese Food Rife During the Pandemic
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There’s a story I’ve been telling since I was 16, about why my best friend and I stopped going to Asian buffets. In Birmingham, UK, we visited one of my favorites; they had salmon teppanyaki to order, crisp seaweed, braised aubergine and tofu, duck pancakes, sushi, an ice cream machine and more, for half my
Written by Linda D. MohlerMarch 10, 2021
‘Cherry freedom’ sweeps China despite coronavirus fears over imported food
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Chinese health experts went on TV to say cherries were safe to eat if you washed them (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the risk from eating or handling food is “very low”), while Chile’s embassy said it hadn’t been confirmed that the tainted batch was from Chile. But it was too
Written by Linda D. MohlerMarch 4, 2021
A 60-second intro to Korean-Chinese food
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Jjajangmyeon on the left, jjampong in the middle, and pan-fried mandu on the right © Photo: The Washington Post / Contributor (Getty Images) jjajangmyeon, jjampong, pan-fried mandu Chinese-American food is a staple of many people’s takeout rotations, and we all have our favorite orders. When you crave it, you crave it. But there’s a lesser-known
Written by Linda D. MohlerFebruary 18, 2021
Expand your horizons with these variations on Chinese food in San Francisco
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Outside of China, Chinese food ventures far beyond Americanized dishes like chop suey and General Tso’s Chicken. This remarkably versatile cuisine – born of centuries of immigration, persecution, and scarcity – has been reinvented repeatedly as required by custom and circumstance. Here we explore the history of three very different cultural takes on Chinese food,
Written by Linda D. MohlerFebruary 16, 2021
A frozen food fallacy? The coronavirus origin story that doesn’t stack up
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When a cluster of coronavirus cases appeared in Qingdao in October 2020, local health authorities scrambled to test 11 million residents of the Chinese seaport in just five days. The extensive tracing efforts led them back to two dock workers who had been infected with COVID-19 in late September. It was never confirmed how the
Written by Linda D. MohlerFebruary 8, 2021
A Chat With Food Critics, Chefs And Restaurateurs From Asia
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Restaurant Majestic by Unlisted Collection – Fine Dining Redefined Restaurant Majestic by Unlisted Collection I gather my friends – Asian food writers, food critics, restaurateurs and chefs – asking them why they think Chinese food comes with such a bad reputation – ultimately being the poster child of ‘dirty’. With hundreds of Chinese restaurants closed
Written by Linda D. MohlerJanuary 23, 2021
Food Should Be Treated as a National Security Issue
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A population’s access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food has been a core state interest since time immemorial. In the Bible, Joseph rose to power after resolving Egypt’s food shortages; as early as perhaps the Zhou dynasty, numerous Chinese emperors lost the “mandate of Heaven,” or the right to rule, when they failed to address
Written by Linda D. MohlerJanuary 19, 2021
Workers Trapped in Chinese Mine Ask for Food
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BEIJING — Workers trapped for more than a week in a Chinese gold mine asked for pickles and porridge to be dropped to them while they wait to be rescued, state media reported Tuesday. The website of the People’s Daily said the request came after a telephone line was dropped to the group of 11