Is Your Duck Too Fat?
Monday, August 13, 2012 - 13:50
in Psychology & Sociology
The BBC (cue: Land of Hope and Glory!) has just started yet another series on Chinese food. In Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure, two famous chefs, the illustrious Ken Hom OBE and the rising star Ching-He Huang (黃瀞億) (neither of whom has an entry in Chinese Wikipedia) are travelling around China, and so far have been travelling around the region of Beijing, encountering a Grandmaster of Peking Duck. Crisp skin and moist meat are essential, but the Chinese are becoming increasingly health-conscious, and over half of the ducks they eat are now of a reduced-fat v read more