Dragonboat Festival

Marking the 5th day of the 5th month is Duan Wu or Tuen Ng Festival (端午節). As with all other Chinese festivals, it comes with a legend that we all…

Teaching Primary Food and Nutrition

Last month, I was invited to join Claire and Frances at the British Nutrition Foundation to deliver an updated webinar on Building cultural awareness when delivering healthy eating messages. It…

Postpartum v.3

When we found out baby number 3 was on the way, one of the first things which came to mind was how we could organise the older two children’s school…

F2F Magazine interview

On a beautiful late spring morning, I met with Ursula Arens in Vauxhall, for her ‘face-to-face’ column in Network Health Dietitians. It was particularly enjoyable as we shared many things…

Food as discipline

Over a month after my grandmother (porpor) had passed, my family is still in mourning. According to Buddhist thought, this period lasts for seven weeks with the start of each…