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Leave It To Cleaver: 5 Best Chinese Veggie Cleavers for Your Kitchen

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Leave It to Cleaver At our house growing up, dinner was always cooked with fresh, mostly local ingredients. Mom boasted that she could prepare an 8-course meal using only a wok, pair of chopsticks, and her favorite Asian cleaver. And she did–slice, dice, shred, chop, tenderize, bang, even scoop! After a full day working as a public schools teacher, Mom whipped up fast, healthy ... Continue Reading

Chinese Southern Belle Partners with Atlanta-based PeachDish Southern-Inspired Meal Kits

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HELLO what? Try Atlanta-based PeachDish.com meal kits! Fresh, creative, Southern-inspired recipes featuring our yummy sauces and other awesome Georgia Grown & local/regional suppliers and chefs. Order online and now **NEW** look for "goodness-to-go" kits in Whole Foods Market stores, South region.Save $10 off first order: enter discount code Natalie17  (online orders ... Continue Reading

Black Rice, Black Sesame is the New Green!

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 Grandma said eating black rice and black sesame made my hair shiny, black and healthy. She fed me black sesame soup (zhima tang), sticky rice balls oozing with sweet black sesame paste (tangyuan) and black sesame candy. Black rice and black sesame has protein and fiber, plus B vitamins and minerals, manganese, magnesium, calcium, iron, and zinc. We make our sushi and ... Continue Reading

Video Quick Tips: Asian Noodles!

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I love breaking corn bread – or slurping a bowl of pho beef noodle soup—for fun, health and a better world.Here's we go noodle crazy in the oodles of noodles aisle with Quick Tips: Asian Noodles! Unlike Italian wheat flour pasta, Asian noodles use a variety of grains and source ingredients, like rice flour, egg, buckwheat, mung beans, even sweet potato!Make delicious, ... Continue Reading