2013
September 26, 2013
The Barilla Controversy: Family, Pasta, and 'Politics'
Buitoni challenges Barilla on Facebook: "In the Buitoni home there is room for everybody."
Apparently homophobic remarks of Guido Barilla, the chairman of the famous Italian pasta company, spurred a controversy that is cultural and political as well as commercial.
February 8, 2013
CHINESE NEW YEAR: FACTS, MYTHS AND SUPERSTITIONS
...In this period the grayness of this city is lit up by the red decorations: paper lanterns, good luck scrolls, zodiac animal signs…homes and buildings made up to look their...
January 22, 2013
The foreign Taitai (housewife) and the grocery shopping in Shanghai
Pig face
Maybe for fear of the ‘(un)known’ or maybe because it feels more natural to buy products whose name you can read, maybe for the nostalgia that grips you when you’re so far...
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