My Life in Beijing: Does this have peanuts in it?
I am 100% allergy free. There is nothing I can’t (or don’t) eat. This, of…
Browsing: Food
Don’t Feed the Dogs…Optima
If you’ve been feeding your dog Optima dry dog food, stop immediately and get your…
Is Bird Flu Back?
Both CNN andthe China Daily have reported a 19 year-old woman has died of the…
Counting Down in the Capital
The blowout bash that is Chinese New Year doesn’t occur until the end of January,…
Food Scare Frenzy
Skimming China Daily on a recent day, I was surprised to discover an article suggesting…
Café-Society – Kids Eat Your Heart Out
The International Herald Tribune recently published an article about little David Fishman, a 12 year-old…
Can I Have a Glass of Milk Yet?
When the melamine milk scandal was revealed post-Olympics, Beijing went into a dairy-phobic blitz. After…
Go Ahead, Blame Mom
As if pregnant women weren’t inundated by health advice already, a new study in The…
Childhood Obesity: genetic or environmental?
A Chinese survey conducted earlier this year shows that 295,000 kids in Beijing are overweight,…
Getting Past the Food Hurdle
Bringing Taste Buds to Life Both my parents were raised in small towns in Ontario,…