Food

Cooking and the curious stories food carries with it.

Dishes & histories

• Moo shu pork (Article) — the northern-Chinese stir-fry whose name poetically renames its scrambled egg “sweet osmanthus blossoms,” dodging a taboo on the word “egg” during Confucian death-anniversary rites.

Reading

• Gastronomica (Website) — UC Press’s quarterly “Journal for Food Studies,” with peer-reviewed essays treating food as a lens on culture, history, labour, and politics, from wine microbiomes to cultivated meat.