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• The Food Chain: To Counter Problems of Food Aid, Try Spuds

  Food scientists are proposing a novel solution for the global food crisis: Let them eat potatoes. Read More... Posted Oct 26 2008, 02:26 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Grain, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), International Trade and World Market, Potatoes, China, India, United Nations, Peru, Food Aid

• Next Week, Our Hero Chooses a Médoc

  A comic-book figure, the hero of the manga series “The Drops of the Gods,” has quickly become the most influential voice in Asia’s wine markets. Read More... Posted Oct 21 2008, 04:35 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Wines, Japan, China, Tokyo (Japan), Comic Books and Strips, South Korea, Cartoons and Cartoonists, Taiwan

• China Announces Stricter Testing Because of Milk Scandal

  China said Wednesday it had strengthened dairy-product testing to reduce the allowable trace amounts of melamine. Read More... Posted Oct 08 2008, 09:15 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food Contamination and Poisoning, China, Melamine

• First, Crack Them Open (Like Americans Do!)

  Although most Americans think of fortune cookies as Chinese, they are all but unknown in China. Read More... Posted Aug 26 2008, 08:11 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: China, Chinese Food (Cuisine), Fortune Cookies, Chinese-Americans

• Television Review | 'The Largest Chinese Restaurant in the World': 700 Orders of Moo Goo Gai Pan? Sure. Is That to Go?

  This odd little mini-series profiles a restaurant in Hunan Province that seats 5,000 guests, employs more than 300 chefs and goes through 700 chickens and 200 snakes in a week. Read More... Posted Aug 03 2008, 10:42 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Restaurants, China, Television, Chinese Food (Cuisine), Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World, The (TV Program), Documentary Films and Programs, Sundance Channel

• Food Stuff: A Triple Play for the Olympics

  A slender new Zagat guide covers 618 restaurants and 106 hotels in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. Read More... Posted Jul 29 2008, 07:12 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, China, Olympic Games (2008), Chinese Food, Ratings and Rating Systems, Hotels and Motels, Zagat Survey

• ‘Eating Skillfully’

  In this memoir, an Englishwoman falls in love with China and its food. Read More... Posted Jul 20 2008, 09:55 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Books and Literature, China, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper (Book), Dunlop, Fuchsia

• Book Review: Mapping the Myriad Tastes of the ‘Other China’

  “Beyond the Great Wall” opens up vast worlds of other Chinas scarcely known to cooks and food lovers in the United States. Read More... Posted Jul 01 2008, 10:57 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Cooking and Cookbooks, Food, Books and Literature, China, Beyond the Great Wall (Book)

• China Orders Up Menus for Tourists

  The Chinese government has released an official list of suggested English translations for Chinese dishes with names like “pock-marked old lady’s tofu.” Read More... Posted Jun 24 2008, 07:53 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Cooking and Cookbooks, Restaurants, China, Translation, Menus, Olympic Games (2008)

• Scorpions for Breakfast and Snails for Dinner

  My wife and I may not deserve credit for rearing adventurous eaters. Our children were born and raised in China, where people eat anything. Read More... Posted Jun 10 2008, 09:13 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Children and Youth, Families and Family Life, China

• Op-Ed Columnist: Grains Gone Wild

  How did the food crisis happen? The answer is a combination of long-term trends, bad luck — and bad policy. Read More... Posted Apr 06 2008, 11:22 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Agriculture, International Trade and World Market, Third World and Developing Countries, Politics and Government, China, Biofuels, Ethanol