With vivid images and descriptions of color, taste and smells, Tzu-i Chuang's book of recipes Simple, Sumptuous, Sublime is an enjoyable read.
PARIS - For three weeks, as the Tour de France riders did their thing, a team of journalists who followed them valiantly ate and drank their way through the gastronomic offerings along the 3,540-kilometer route.
Chongqing has built more than 4,500 bridges in recent years, the largest number in China.
Nanjing-based artist Zhang Lei has been described by his friends and art collectors as a "watcher" of Jiangxinzhou, an island on the Yangtze River in East China's Jiangsu province.
LONDON - The City of London Corporation and major arts organizations in the Square Mile announced on Friday ambitious plans to create a new art quarter for the historic city. The northern border of the city of London will be the home to a new Culture Mile, according to CLC, the local municipal authority.
NEW YORK - A new exhibit featuring the work of Muppets creator Jim Henson is now on permanent display in New York to celebrate the career of the American puppeteer who brought to life such characters as Miss Piggy and Big Bird.
A digitized archive of V.K. Wellington Koo's papers will be available online in November, offering researchers access to materials from the legendary 20th-century Chinese diplomat's collection of papers kept by Columbia University..
The tomb of Aemilianus van Heel located on top of a small hill in Shitou Geda village, Yuanqu, North China's Shanxi province, overlooks a patch of a wheat field he reclaimed from the wild in the 1930s.
Liang Jiahao first encountered beef in 2002, in a local chain restaurant called Haoxianglai, which literally means "really wish to come" in Chinese.
MEXICO CITY - Leonor Espinosa, a Colombian chef known for sourcing local ingredients and giving back to the communities that supply them, won the Basque Culinary World Prize on Monday, a 100,000-euro ($114,000) prize for chefs who make a difference.
One time many years ago, I was riffling through my grandmother Ruth's box of handwritten recipe cards when I pulled up short at the sight of the title of this recipe for Cheese Sandwich Souffle. Souffle? Fancy! But reading the details, I quickly understood that this item was nothing more or less than the wedding of a ham-and-cheese sandwich and some French toast.
Despite the heat, 79-year-old Yudron was among the hundreds of local residents that lined up outside the local medical center in a remote township in the Tibet autonomous region waiting for the chance to see visiting experts from Beijing-based hospitals and medical institutions.
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