Fava beans green as fresh spring grass (yes, even though we’re well into summer) graced our table this past weekend. I plucked our entire homegrown crop so that we could make a meal of them because, as I’ll soon explain, it takes a lot of fava beans and a lot of elbow grease to get […]
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Pampers, pakhlava and potstickers?
Severely jet-lagged but eager to enjoy my first meal in Beijing, Big Papa and I joined a few of his coworkers for dinner. As we strolled to the restaurant, we were treated to a lovely sunset on a relatively clear evening in September with air pollution at record lows. Lucky for us, the 2008 Summer […]