Foodthink and the Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market present their New Year Recipes from Day 2 to Day 7. The day-five radish sashimi needs only washing, no peeling, a thick cut and soy sauce — good produce, served simply, says it all.
This tofu comes from Xiucai Bean Workshop – stir-fry the yellow bean paste until fragrant, braise for three minutes, and it’s ready. This dish is one of the Spring Festival New Year’s recipes co-created by Foodthink and the Beijing Organic Farmers Market with six farmers.
Foodthink and the Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market present “New Year’s Feast Recipes”, days two to seven — six farmers each cooking with their own produce. Huairou Snail Farm’s stir-fried chicken braises a free-range rooster in beer for two hours: when ingredients shine, the cooking does them justice.
Wu Longlong of Mùtóngxīn Farm marinates pork belly thoroughly with Sichuan peppercorns and five-spice powder, coats it in flour and steams forty minutes — and it’s done. A New Year dish from Foodthink and Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market’s one-dish-per-day series, second to seventh day of the New Year.
Foodthink and Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market serve six consecutive days of “New Year recipes” – Day 2 to Day 7 – six home-style dishes of meat, vegetables and soup made from farming friends’ home-grown ingredients, so every good taste on the New Year table has an honest origin.
Drying sweet potato starch, steaming rice cakes, brewing red yeast rice wine, preparing winter bamboo shoots — Songyang’s New Year’s Eve dinner takes all winter, on Braid Granny at the market, nearly thirty years of Sister Zhuhua’s cakes, forest ranger Xu Yeyin’s wine vats, and the Grandpa Li couple.
Shandong native Kouzi’s sixth winter in rural Fujian: from rocket stove kang to old granary turned warm room, from radish soup to dried pumpkin, the south’s damp cold at last gives way to ease.
Saturday 7 February: eight Foodthink members take over Jishi, the community veg shop at Sanyuanqiao, swapping writing for veg selling. Join us in person or online for a year-end report, food and agriculture sharing session, Chinese New Year live shopping, and a film screening with lamb soup dinner.
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In a sixteenth-century manor in western France, a 1970s hippie couple sustains self-sufficiency through work-exchange volunteers. A month with a Colombian brother and sister—undocumented workers—picking strawberries, smashing walls, making cheese: the “return to the countryside” romantic imaginings shattered by day after day of unpaid manual labour.