Any Chinese chef will tell you that the secret to a good stir fry or chop suey is the sauce. Sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami make up the five basic gustatory sensations that humans taste when eating. The Chinese have cleverly developed many sauces over the centuries made by fermenting beans and sometimes seafood....
If there is one dietary lesson that I have learned in this region, is that foods should also be enjoyed for healing and repair, not just for sustenance and taste. The Pacific Islanders have had the Tree of Life coconut for eons, with all its anti-oxidant, anti-microbial, anti-aging and anti-bacterial richness to repair, heal and...