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• baking, butter, cake, chocolate, cooking, dessert, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, recipes, Thanksgiving

  Pre-Pear-ed

  12.02.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Western/American holidays in China have a totally different meaning than they do at ‘home.’ Having a Christmas party or a Thanksgiving dinner is, at least for me, more about nostalgia and comfort than about the actual holiday. I didn’t have a big party at my house so that we could all think about the Pilgrims. [...]

  

• baking, dessert, home cooking, huzhou, Shanghai, students, teaching

  You Have No Ikea

  04.02.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Every year around this time, I wonder what was going through my mother’s mind as she was delivering me. Of course there’s “OWWWWWW!” and the whole “My life is never going to be the same” thing, but I imagine that as my mother was expelling me into the world, there was another thought pushing for [...]

  

• baking, dessert, holidays, huzhou

  I’m Dreaming of a Caucasian Christmas

  12.28.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Most kids wake up early on Christmas because they’re so excited to open presents. This year, I was excited to wake up on Christmas because I was going to bake a cake. Cake is always a good reason to get out of bed. Christmas has been a long time coming here in China. For at [...]

  

• cooking, dessert, holidays, out and about, Shanghai, travel

  Shang to the Hai: A Celebration in 53 Hours, Hours 18-39

  12.20.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Previously, on Plate of Wander: Gino is 26, the laowai go to Shanghai, and a Turkish binge. This is Haibao, the mascot for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, which China is already pimping. You’ll hear more about him in the next post. After a leisurely breakfast at the hostel, it was time to start [...]

  

• America, baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, Peanute butter, recipes

  An Edible 1040

  08.22.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Halloween was always a bittersweet holiday for me. I loved dressing up, trick-or-treating, and, more importantly, filling a pillowcase with enough candy to erode my entire skull. (I would still be going now, at the hoary age of 22, but even when I was 15 people were asking, “Aren’t you too old for this?” Is [...]

  

• America, baking, butter, cake, cooking, dessert, recipes

  Ich Bin Ein Kuchen

  08.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  You know how families have those classic recipes, the ones that are passed down through generations? Maybe there’s a grandmother that made Apple Pie That Brought the Family Together, and then she taught her daughter how to make it and that woman taught her daughter and it becomes the family legacy with ‘secret ingredients’ and [...]

  

• baking, cooking, dessert, pizza, recipes

  Plastics

  06.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My mother decided it would be a fun idea to throw me a graduation party. This is kind of a big deal for my family, because we never throw parties. When my dad got his masters degree, we had a party, but my brother and I were sequestered in another room with a television and [...]

  

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