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Slower Sunday: The Chicken Comes First

Then the egg. Boil the stock. Then slowly, very slowly, drizzle in the egg. Gaze into the pot. This has to be the most entertaining bowl of soup around. Press Play for a little Sunday Psychedelia. A Chinese New Year flashback.
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Why guys learn to cook.
(Will you still feed me, when I’m 64?)

More and more older Baby Boomers are thinking about cooking for the first time in their lives. Because, well, there might not be somebody else to feed them. Right now. Or in the imaginable future. This isn't a downer. It's deep. If the kitchen is uncharted territory for you like it was for me, please click.
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Walking & Eating in Beijing

Could be an all-day 26-mile hike. Could be a 4-mile spin around the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. Could walk a mile inside the Farmers Market or through 4,000 cypress trees to get to Heaven. Whichever way you turn, this is a delicious way to see the sights while you burn way more calories than you consume.
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Skinny Egg Rolls

Not an authentic egg roll. More like a really thin egg pancake wrapped tightly around quickly sauteed vegetables. Do it all in one pan in five minutes. Which leaves plenty of time to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
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Not Spare Ribs

Intensely fragrant, sweet and spicy. It's the powdered mustard, ginger and cinnamon. And the fennel and anise seeds. The opposite of spare ribs. Rich ribs. Chinese Short Ribs for the Lunar New Year.
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Jasmine Rice for the Year of the Tiger

Today's the day for this one-pan jasmine rice and vegetables preparation. You do next to nothing. Cook the vegetables right in the pan with the grains. It's all in the timing. Happy New Year.
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Living Room Olympics: Luge Training

Sounds like something slow and lazy. You lie on your back on a strange sled. But then you slide around an icy track at 90 mph. You don't just lay there. You have to steer the thing. With your calf muscles. Really. Time to strengthen and stretch your calves, huh? C'mon, stand up.
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The Walk That Ate Positano

A very beautiful and very vertical town. Where the smallest streets are actually staircases. Where you walk up an appetite on the Way to every ristorante. Burn more calories than you swallow in this tiny hill town on Italy's Amalfi coast.
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