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...scientists traced the eating habits of 3,000 Chinese women, ranging in age from 25 to 64. Half of the group ate a "meat sweet" diet of Western cuisine, rich in red meat, shrimp, fish, candy, desserts, bread and milk. The others stuck to more traditional Asian fare of tofu, vegetables, sprouts, beans, fish and soy milk. Postmenopausal women in the meat-sweet group showed a 60% greater risk of developing the most common kind of breast cancer...
...food-conservation industry. (Then there's the story of Ellen G. White, the founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, who claimed to have had a vision revealing vegetarianism as the key to longevity - thus making her congregation the "the first white people in the United States to make tofu.") The author also makes no pretence of neutrality: readers are advised to eat locally, organically and sustainably; to support workers' rights to fair wages and debt relief for countries exploited by food-exporting corporations; to participate in community-supported agriculture; and to learn the joys of slow food...
...read: smoking). But the focus, quite rightly, is on the food, not decor. An unstructured menu - Zuma dispenses with the usual distinctions between starters and mains - will have you marveling and grunting over things like baby chicken marinated in barley miso and roasted on cedar wood, or fresh cold tofu with grated wasabi and other condiments. End on a dessert like jasmine-poached white peach for a sustained rush of serotonin. Zuma is Hong Kong's restaurant of the moment, but ultimately bound for a far less ephemeral glory than that. Call...
...subject, I sometimes try to put them at ease by first chatting about a) their favorite food; b) China's breakneck-speed economic growth; or, best of all, c) their pride that Beijing will host the 2008 Summer Olympics. Once the interviewee has expounded on a particular kind of tofu, or their son who's now studying international trade, or the prowess of China's table-tennis team, I segue to the real topic at hand. The strategy works surprisingly well...
...Journey Special Issue [June 25-July 2], featuring a novel's worth of reporting on food, I noticed comments about people being very conservative and preferring the particular flavors they encountered as children. That is not always the case. When I was 18, I became a vegan and tried tofu for the first time, but I was not put off by its strangeness. When I was 20, I went to France from Canada and tried the best food I had ever eaten. Daniel Owens, Paris...