February Tips and Reflections
Today, when we talked about regional cuisines, we are talking about thousand year old techniques and 500 year old ingredients that go back to the “Colombian Exchange” in the 1500s. That exchange made it possible...
China
3,500 years of written Chinese history
Chinese characters, also known as Hanzi (漢字) are one of the earliest forms of written language in the world, dating back approximately five thousand years. With such a diverse ethnic population, yet, Chinese people managed...
Chinese Food and Health
The Chinese practice of seasonal agriculture has been the basis for the development of all the other aspects of human intellect we know as the “Chinese Civilization”. China’s vast land has climates that go from...
Chinese Inventions!
One of the things that amazes me about Chinese creativity is that there are ordinary people today that can read a text that was written 3500 year old. The name ‘China’ comes from the Sanskrit...