https://thewoksoflife.com/category/life/ a culinary genealogy Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:26:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-TWOL-favicon-4-32x32.png https://thewoksoflife.com/category/life/ 32 32 https://thewoksoflife.com/a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:25:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=76018 Hi everyone, this is an essay that I wrote for our cookbook, The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know and Love from a Chinese American Family, now available wherever books are sold. (If you haven’t already, grab a copy! It has 100 recipes, including 80 that aren’t on the blog, as well as lots of ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that/feed/ 68 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-zodiac-compatibility/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-zodiac-compatibility/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:45:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=78391 Today, we’re sharing our (very informal) guide to Chinese zodiac compatibility! If you grew up in a Chinese family, chances are that over the years you’ve had parents and relatives drop cryptic hints about your zodiac animal sign, whether it’s about your personality or your future partner.  We’re no different, and this post is a ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-zodiac-compatibility/feed/ 21 https://thewoksoflife.com/when-is-chinese-new-year-2024/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/when-is-chinese-new-year-2024/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:03:31 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=70614 Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival (春节 – chūnjié) is the year of the Dragon (pronounced “loong” in Chinese) and festivities start February 10, 2024. The lunar new year, falls on a slightly different day in January or February of each year, as it follows the Chinese lunisolar calendar, rather than the regular Gregorian calendar ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/when-is-chinese-new-year-2024/feed/ 23 https://thewoksoflife.com/introducing-a-new-member-of-the-woks-family/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/introducing-a-new-member-of-the-woks-family/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=77803 Today we have some very exciting news to share—a new addition to The Woks of Life family: Baby Ethan! Sarah and Justin recently welcomed this bundle of joy into the world, and despite the fact that he’s been cocooned at Sarah and Justin’s (flu season and all), he’s already become the star of all our ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/introducing-a-new-member-of-the-woks-family/feed/ 318 https://thewoksoflife.com/holiday-gift-guide-woksoflife/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/holiday-gift-guide-woksoflife/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:51:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=16673 If your mind is turning to holiday gifting, we’ve got a gift guide for every kind of person in your life, whether they be unfailingly practical, a constant traveler, a little artsy, a homebody, or fashion-forward. Check out our other gift guides! You might have seen that we have two other gift guides that are ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/holiday-gift-guide-woksoflife/feed/ 17 https://thewoksoflife.com/the-hostess-gifts-holiday-gift-guide/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/the-hostess-gifts-holiday-gift-guide/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:50:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=77086 Host or Hostess gifts can be so much more than a bottle of wine or other alcohol! A gift for the host of your evening (whatever gender they may be) is a lovely opportunity to preemptively thank them for the fun you’ll have and retroactively thank them for the time, thought, and effort that went ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/the-hostess-gifts-holiday-gift-guide/feed/ 2 https://thewoksoflife.com/gift-guide-kitchen-and-garden/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/gift-guide-kitchen-and-garden/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:50:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=77139 It’s our Kitchen and Garden gift guide, full of the select items we reach for again and again—for that cooking and/or gardening enthusiast in your life. The Kitchen and Garden Gift Guide Around the holidays, we often get questions from family and friends on the “best of” cooking tools. What’s worth it, what’s not, and ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/gift-guide-kitchen-and-garden/feed/ 0 https://thewoksoflife.com/woks-of-life-cookbook-nominated-james-beard-award/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/woks-of-life-cookbook-nominated-james-beard-award/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:40:58 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=72551 In yet another pinch-me moment surrounding our cookbook (First pinch-me moment: the book we’ve worked on for years gets published. Second: getting amazing feedback from some of our favorite creators. See: Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Andrew Zimmern, and so many others! Third: hitting the New York Times Bestseller list!), we found ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/woks-of-life-cookbook-nominated-james-beard-award/feed/ 222 https://thewoksoflife.com/west-coast-cookbook-tour/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/west-coast-cookbook-tour/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2023 05:01:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=70821 Hi everyone, to kick off the Year of the Rabbit, we’re headed west! You asked, and we answered. After the first leg of our book tour, Sarah and I will be coming to Seattle, L.A., and the Bay Area from February 7-11 for cookbook talks and signings!!! The Woks of Life west coast events schedule ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/west-coast-cookbook-tour/feed/ 37 https://thewoksoflife.com/cookbook-behind-the-scenes-reviews/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/cookbook-behind-the-scenes-reviews/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2022 15:35:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=69403 In this cookbook behind the scenes post, we share a look behind the curtain, from the messy reality behind each beautiful food picture in the book, to our fun lifestyle shoot with Christine Han! Cookbook Excitement! Our cookbook, The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know & Love from a Chinese American Family, has been on ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/cookbook-behind-the-scenes-reviews/feed/ 63