New Year, New You. The turning of the New Year offers many to set their resolutions, personal challenges and self-improvement, and a lot of them relates to being fitter and healthier….
Wedding ‘gastropolitics’ – what’s going on?
Our trip to Hong Kong culminated at a relation’s wedding banquet, which spanned over two days at a 5-star hotel hosted by the groom’s side, to be continued at the…
Hong Kong foodscape
One of my key projects in Hong Kong is to explore its local food-scape – what is it and who informs it? A rather trendy term popular in recent discourses…
Hong Kong Halloween
Like many other festivals which have a high commercial value, Halloween has become a very popular occasion for expat and locals alike in Hong Kong. When I was a child, there…
Food waste – have we considered all the ‘trimmings’?
As a young child, I was taught never to waste food. It was the mid-1980’s, when Ethiopia was at the height of its famine and images of starving children were broadcast to many parts…
Snip-snip couscous
The time has come to make Audrey’s first packed lunch at pre-school this week. As only cold options are allowed at the nursery, and since growing up I’ve always had a…