FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Discussions on restaurants, eating habits and cooking highlight Open Day events in Beijing, Yang Yang reports.

Chuang Tzu-i from Taiwan was studying anthropology in the United States about 12 years ago. One day the doctoral candidate came across Cambridge Cookery School in the neighborhood of her lodging. Watching through the window, she could see a busy class shrouded in steam.

It was the sixth year of her PhD program when she was preparing for her final dissertation.