20-April-07 at 6:52pm
What are we drinking? Before Christmas an Italian friend of mine, who takes his cooking very seriously, put some tomatoes into a pot of water to boil…. Came back 10 minutes later…. The water was like red paint, and the tomatoes were all white….. The water?
Formaldehyde in the beer?
Why is my hair falling out? Any nuclear power stations around here?
What are we eating? So if a broccoli looks too green, that’s because it is….a tomato looks too red, that’s because it is…. all tainted with pesticide. All that shiny and succulent carefully arranged fruit in the fruit shop downstairs…. Coated with…?
And the fish? A local Hangzhou Ren (native) once told me that as long as it was alive before they cooked it than it was safe to eat
What about so called beef? I mean…when was the last time you saw a heifer in China? Water buffalo, or? And, as for pork?
…. The thought of what we are eating and drinking here just doesn’t bear thinking about…. Ignorance is bliss, other we’d starve.
However, I really would love to know what is in the air, and how many nuclear power stations are powering Hangzhou?
Suddenly the foreign food aisle of Hangzhou’s Carrefour seems like heaven. Tinned tomatoes from Italy, olives from Spain, plenty of imported pasta, and wine.. 
