Gardening is therapy, people have long been saying. With the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic affecting the world, growing plants seems to…
One of the major growing areas of the chilli in China lies in Zhecheng, Henan, a few hours southeast of…
Chilli for the cold? The usual argument is that chilli is popular in the heat of the tropics. At the…
A post-script to the (pre-)Christmas time, something to think about… a pre-script to a recipe?
China should be one of the great “hot spots” on the world map of the chilli. Chilli is everywhere in…
Spices are easy to find now and cheap; you just go into the next supermarket. Nothing speaks to the special…
Same procedure as every summer, when visiting the in-laws in rural Hunan: We go for a walk through the local…
Numbers on spicy food trends are hard to come by. When they exist, they are all the more interesting –…
What continually fascinates me about rural Hunan is the selection of vegetables – and the amount of chilli – one…