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Organic food and farming. The healthy way to eat in the Feast food community.

Fish-Head Drinking Isn’t a Shandong Rule. I Lived There 40 Years and Never Saw It.
Last winter, in a small restaurant in Jinan, a fish stew in an iron pot had just arrived. A Shandong man turned the fish head toward me and asked, “Is fish-head drinking really that fierce in Henan?”
By Jin5 days ago in Feast
I Cooked 16 Flowers in One Spring. One Numbed My Tongue.
Eating Flowers The first time someone told me daylilies could be eaten, I put my chopsticks down. The plate was already on the table: green-yellow buds, thin and straight, mixed with pork slices. I asked, “This is a flower?” Nobody answered. My aunt took a piece and put it in my bowl. I ate it. It tasted like a mushroom that had learned to be tender. I ate three bowls of rice.
By Jin5 days ago in Feast
Closing the Emotional Buffet.
The word mistress implies a secret. It suggests a woman hidden away in the dark, kept under lock and key, brought out only when it is convenient, and tucked back into the shadows when the real world demands attention. But an emotional mistress doesn’t hide her body; she hides her soul. She is the woman who leaves the door to her mind wide open, allowing broken, fragile, hollow men to walk inside, dust their boots off, dump their heavy baggage on her rug, and drink until they are full.
By Syl De'Vil7 days ago in Feast
Sugar-Free Mooncakes Are Not a Free Pass
A week before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the supermarket shelves were packed with mooncakes. Tin boxes, paper boxes, lava-filled, snow-skin. One row said “sugar-free,” and the price was about thirty percent higher than ordinary mooncakes.
By Jin11 days ago in Feast
I Have to Watch a Commercial Before I Can Enter My Own Home
Beijing, Chaoyang District. Ms. Li stands outside her building. She opens the Daguanjia app. A shopping ad fills the screen. “Twist to download or jump to a third-party app.” She doesn’t twist. She hunts for Skip. Tiny gray text, lower right. She taps. Misses. The shopping app opens. She switches back. Taps again. Two seconds. The door opens.
By Jin13 days ago in Feast
Taco Bell is vegetarian friendly
I was vegetarian some time ago but still i do appreciate the fact that Taco Bell is one of the few fast food chains out there that is accommodating to the vegetarian Community as a whole. Also due to the fact that Taco Bell is vegetarian friendly as I said at the beginning of this sentence pita which is short for people for the ethical treatment of animals supports the restaurant chains Valiant efforts accommodate the vegetarian community and that’s an awesome thing period when I went vegetarian long ago I worried that I would not be able to enjoy Taco Bell as I had when i did eat meat before I went vegetarianUnfortunately I have to do it that again for health reasonsPeriodSome of my favoritesOn the vegetarian menuThe cheesy bean and white rice burrito the Fiesta potatoesAnd just about anything else that came along with it. If I may go so far as to say because it’s true that even the sauce is that Taco Bell provides our meatless and vegetarian too so they count as being vegetarian offerings on the Taco Bell menu as well. This is just one of the many ways in which taco Bell is an Innovative and fresh and forward thinking if you can believe it because they are fresh and forward thinking inApproaches to business and the culinary world as well. There are also cheese quesadillas and cheese burritos and all that fair and stuff and that’s one of the reasons why Taco Bell has always been one of my favorite go-to fast food chains ever and always will I think I think my last meal’s going to be a meatless or something from Taco Bell I don’t know anyway period taco Bell is the best and I’m glad.
By Revista Miko:XCI 14 days ago in Feast
The Big Apple Breakdown: . Content Warning.
There are a lot of things you can find in a gritty Maine gas station. Red hot dogs rolling under a heat lamp that’s definitely older than the clerk's grandparents. Coffee that tastes like it was brewed during the Carter administration and left to rot. A wall of scratch tickets promising hope to people who can't afford it and delivering absolutely fucking nothing. And, of course, whoopie pies. The real ones. The kind wrapped in plastic that fogs up from the humidity of the cake. The kind that taste like childhood, pure sugar, and the exact brand of comfort you only seek out when you’re standing under buzzing fluorescent lights at nine o’clock at night, wondering how your life got this profoundly weird.
By Syl De'Vil19 days ago in Feast
Why you shouldn't eat at everyone's house. . Content Warning.
I need you to understand something before I begin. I was 12 almost 13 and we lived in Hawaii. I had no control over the situation what so ever. Okay.!!
By Syl De'Vil23 days ago in Feast
Turkish Lunch Adventure
I have eaten MREs that could legally be classified as war crimes. I have eaten chow hall “eggs” that were definitely poured out of a five‑gallon bucket labeled Product . I have eaten vending machine sandwiches that tasted like they had been assembled by someone who had only heard rumors about food. But nothing—absolutely nothing—compares to the meal I had in 2000 at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, when me and my friend Franki B walked off gate guard duty and straight into a stranger’s house like two feral raccoons who had decided to try our luck indoors.
By Syl De'Vil23 days ago in Feast
Groundhog Stew and the Gospel of the Hills
There is a version of Appalachia sold to the world in glossy spreads, all rustic tables and heirloom vegetables plated like jewelry, and nothing about it comes near the truth of what actually fed people up in those hollers when I was a kid. The truth smelled like wood ash and wild onion, and it simmered for hours in a pot far too old for anyone to give it a proper age, in a house that never once considered itself poor, even though every soul who ate there qualified.
By Tim Carmichael26 days ago in Feast
Almas Caviar: A Taste of Rarity, Luxury and Time
There are meals that satisfy hunger, and there are meals that become stories. Almas caviar belongs firmly to the second kind. It is not a dish that arrives at the table simply to fill a plate. It arrives with history, mystery, craftsmanship, and a price tag capable of making even experienced food lovers pause for a second.
By Nelo28 days ago in Feast
In the Maldives, the Coconut Is More Than Food
Fresh coconuts cover the table. Some are still whole, while others have been opened to reveal their white flesh. Around them are sweets, tropical ingredients and natural decorations prepared for a World Coconut Day buffet in the Maldives.
By Cristian Marinoabout a month ago in Feast