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The Take-Out Lover's Dilemma

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Leftovers, Chinese Food, Rice, Takeout, Park Slope, Recipes, Delivery Food, Fried Rice, Food Blogs, Chinese Takeout, Broccoli, Broccoli-in-Garlic-Sauce Fried Rice, New York News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

Broccoli-in-Garlic-Sauce Fried Rice is one of those leftover dishes that doesn't quite feel like leftovers, since it really is different than what came before.

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Large and in Charge

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Depression, Colonialism, Hawthorne, Fat, Strunk and White, My Friend Baker, Glamour Magazine, Girls Body Image, Women and Body Image, Natives, Body Image, How-to-Speed-Up-Metabolism, Christianity, Religious Conversion, Metabolism, Poor Richard's Almanack, My Friend Emily, Chinese Food, Benjamin Franklin, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Whether you're colonizing natives in the New World or trying to keep women down without actually having to do anything, it's always good to make the people you control feel that everything is their idea.

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Animal Report

Dave Hill | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Grocery, Chinese Food, Cats, Dave Hil, Animals, Combos, Fish, Comedy News
Dave Hill

After nearly maiming me, the kitty cat got back up and headed for the end- of-aisle chip display. Here it just sat there and stared for a second before discovering a box of snack-sized Combos.

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What I Love And Hate About New York

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 09.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Food, Los Angeles, Chinese Food, Air Conditioning, Pizza, New York, Public Transportation, New York News
Jonathan Daniel Harris

Your pizza is too damn good. I'm lucky I don't live in New York, because if I did I'd eat about three loaves of bread a day and start looking like some sort of Mario Batali-John Madden hybrid.

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The Last Chinese Chef

One For The Table | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Nicole-Mones, The Last Chinese Chef, Chinese Cooking, Chefs, Gourmet Cooking, Home Cooking, Beach-Reading, Cooking Recipes, Cooking, Chinese Culture, China-Mao, Mao, Chinese Food, Chick Lit, Living News
One For The Table

As I prefer a well-prepared meal with beautiful, whole ingredients, I prefer a well-written book with beautiful, thoughtful ideas. After consuming either of these, I am well nourished.

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China Journal, May 16, 2009: Terra-Cotta Soldiers, Islam, and Pollution

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Chinese Food, Terra Cotta Army, Southern China, Green News
Madeleine M. Kunin

China, so quick to tear down the old and build up the new, no matter what the social or environmental cost, recognized the treasure of Terracota Warriors for what they are -- a link to a great past.

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In Search of Real Chinese Food

Alex Remington | Posted 06.06.2009 | Style

Read More: Food, The Last Chinese Chef, Chinese Food, Jennifer 8 Lee, Nicole Mones, Style News
Alex Remington

My weekly addiction to Mongolian beef is helping to bar gourmet Chinese from gaining a foothold in America.

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The Sound of Silence

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Culture, Religion, Living, Jews, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Chinese Food, Shofar, Rabbi, Living News
Earl Pomerantz

The mood in the sanctuary began to sour. By the tenth "Pffffffffff," our congregation, so recently a bastion of uplift and redemption, deteriorated into a hostile, hungry mob.

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Tainted Chinese Milk Has Now Hospitalized Over 10,000 Children

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: China, Foreign Affairs, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Tainted Chinese Milk, Politics News

BEIJING — More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized in China's tainted milk scandal, Chinese health officials revealed, while the country de...

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News
Chi Tung

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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Tainted Chinese Milk Leaves 6,200 Babies Sick, 3 Dead

AP | TINI TRAN | Posted 10.18.2008 | Home

Read More: China, Milk, Tainted Milk, Tainted Chinese Milk, Chinese Food, Home News

BEIJING — The government was dispatching thousands of inspectors to monitor producers as officials reported Wednesday that the number of babies ...

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Chinese Baby Formula Tainted With Harmful Chemical, FDA Warns

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Chinese Exports, Chinese Food, Baby Formula, Chinese Baby Formula, Fda, Home News

WASHINGTON — Tainted infant formula from China may be on sale at ethnic groceries in this country, even though it is not approved for importatio...

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Life Cycle: Zen and the Art of Producing Chopsticks

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Aspen, Chinese Food, Green, Eco, Life Cycle, Green Living, Grass, Environmentally-Friendly, Willow, Environment, Sarah Smarsh, Take-Out, Bamboo, Chopsticks, Mooshu Pork, Deforestation, Simran Sethi, Green News
Simran Sethi

People have been impressing their dates with chopstick dexterity since the Shang Dynasty. But the throw-away version of chopsticks is a less romantic yet marvelous invention.

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Strange Foods -- China Takes Gold

Suzette Standring | Posted 09.25.2008 | Style

Read More: Humor, Beijing, Chinese Food, Gold, China, Cuisine, Olympics, Strange Foods, Restaurant, Snakes, Cooking, Exotic, Food, Eating, Bullfrog, Bronze Medal, Roker, Vieira, Style News
Suzette Standring

I like to think of myself as an adventurous eater, but I've got to hand it to China. They grab the gold on the food front.

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Dog Meat Banned in Beijing During Games

Danwei | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Beijing, Food, Chinese Food, China, Dog Meat, Dogs, Olympics, Home News

A Chinese blogger called Han Yue has posted a notice that purports to be from the Beijing City Government Food Safety Office (北京市政府食品安...

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MSG Wants Its Reputation Back

The New York Times | Julia Moskin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Chinese Food, Msg Health, Msg, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Jennifer 8 Lee, Living News

Even now, after "Chinese restaurant syndrome" has been thoroughly debunked (virtually all studies since then confirm that monosodium glutamate in norm...

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