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Cilantro, Love It or Hate It!
A Polarizing Herb Takes Creative New Directions
Such is the dislike that coriander inspires among some people that it has given rise to its own annual date of antipathy—International I Hate Coriander Day—on February 24th. Scientific research suggests that for haters, their dislike of coriander (the plant and seed) and cilantro (as its leaf ......
Natural Is Best
Vitality Returns to Pinglin’s Organic Tea Farms
There are weeds in the tea farms and emerald green treefrogs in the water buckets, while pangolins and Swinhoe’s pheasants have become more frequent visitors. Over the years, Pinglin tea farmers have changed the way they cultivate their fields, and as pesticides and chemical fertilizers have b......
Tea Grown to Safeguard Water Sources
How Tse-Xin’s Work in Pinglin Brings People, Land, and Ecology into Balance
For many international visitors, bubble tea—with its rich tea-and-milk fragrance and chewy tapioca pearls—has become a shorthand for Taiwan. But bubble tea is only one facet of Taiwan’s tea culture. In the mountain district of Pinglin in northern Taiwan, a group of people is giving Taiwan tea ......
Ding Family Mansion, Lukang
The historic Ding Family mansion in Lukang, Changhua County, is Taiwan’s last remaining example of a shophouse with a street frontage three units wide and a four-sided inner compound. More than 70 meters deep, it combines a “Western-style” facade with traditional family compound architecture.......
A Flavor Revolution in Taiwan Agriculture
This month we visit farmers across Taiwan who are revitalizing traditional produce into brands that are taking the market by storm, in a movement that is a microcosm of the transformation and upgrading of industries islandwide. In terms of flavor creativity, one has to mention the cilantro of ......
Citrous Reinvention:
Minxiong Kumquat Factory
Stepping out of the car at Minxiong Kumquat Factory in Chiayi County’s Minxiong Township, we’re greeted by the pleasant contrast between a glass-fronted building and a brick house. Here visitors get to learn how kumquats lend themselves to the creation of pastries, fermented tofu, ice cream, ......
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