Any thing and everything about organic food in China, including but not limited to: Chefs, Food movements, restaurants, groceries, food safety, farming, certification, and deliciousness.

Shanghai is a large, roaming city. For many, the first hunt for greens for dinner will take them to their neighborhood grocery store. The unease that most people have with any kind of Chinese grown vegetables, organic or not, is China happens to be a large producer of agricultural chemicals, DDT included, which are banned in USA. While there are plenty of markets and grocery stores to chose from (Look for future blogs), the task of completing a shopping list of vegetables is not easy.
Today’s quest for organic vegetables in …

Looking to find the pulse and epicenter of the organic food movement, I went straight to the top. I asked epicurean and sustainability expert Dean Decrease of www.thefourthelement.org for any food leaders he knew in Shanghai. No surprise he sent me over to Christian Rassinoux who is the executive chef at the Portman Ritz-Cartlon and overseas all of Ritz’ restaurants in China.

Christian is a princely, handsome gray haired master chef. His charm made it no surprise when I later found out he was knighted by the president of France. Over …

I started this blog because despite my best attempts and the raw power of a search engine like Google, I cannot find anyone reporting regularly on Organic food movements in China.
So here you have it. This is my attempt to find those reporting on Organics, report myself, and solicit stories from you.
This will be everything and anything organic.
Featuring

Organic produce
Chefs
Food movement leaders
Farms
Restaurants
Stores
Food Safety
Deliciousness
Accountability / Green Washing

I’ll need help. I aspire OC to be in English and Chinese so we can get the most readers, contributors, and hopefully inspire consumers as well …