Get the recipe: Scallion-Oil Noodles
And on the occasion of the Lunar New Year, BA contributor MacKenzie Fegan wrote a great piece for the San Francisco Chronicle about her family’s Chinese restaurants in the area, Henry’s Hunan. It’s a story about the country’s first Chinese restaurants, the struggles of sustaining family-run businesses, and the physical toll that restaurant work requires of the human body. I loved this quote from Meng Tao, MacKenzie’s mother’s half-sister, who still shows up to wash dishes when needed: “I don’t care about my clothes. I don’t care about mahjong,” she told MacKenzie, “I just like to eat.”
Read it: Three Generations At Work in Henry’s Hunan Restaurants in San Francisco
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This newsletter was filed...very late
Because I was watching the Mario Buatta auction LIVE all day Thursday. The interior decorator, who died in 2018, had such a vast and quirky collection of...things...by the time the Sotheby’s auction had been running for four hours, we were only on Lot 192...of 969. Items were going for tens of thousands of dollars. My eyes were on: oil portraits of moody cocker spaniels (want), velvet upholstered footstools (need), and beautiful Delft blue and white porcelain (never enough). When it got to the TROVE of asparagus and cabbage decor, I realized I should maybe write about it to share my wonder and delight with you. Above, an asparagus-shaped tureen ended up selling for $25,000. 25,000!!!!
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