demonstrating the integral role of rice in ancient Chinese culture. The starch granules, scientists noted, showed signs of degradation and gelatinisation by enzymes, processes characteristic of ...

Despite this, many ancient dishes remain ... using clay pots to boil food in water, which gave rise to various famous dishes throughout history, such as claypot rice and claypot chicken.

Now, using new data collected samples of ancient, carbonized rice, a team of Japanese and Chinese scientists have successfully determined DNA sequences to make the first comparisons between modern ...

While in America we may toast to the new year with Champagne and eat black-eyed peas for good luck, those who celebrate the Lunar New Year have a host of food traditions that symbolize wealth, health, ...

The taste of Chinese rice has steadily improved over the past decade, according to a study published as a correspondence letter in Nature. Researchers from the China National Rice Research ...

Food from ancient, and not-so-ancient, times, has seen cuisine from across China appear on tables at home and abroad to this ...