Food on the Brain

For someone who was practically weaned on a diet of Chinese food through most of my teenage years,I didn't exactly take to the cuisine like fish to water when I first arrived in China.In fact it was a whole year before I ventured into a Chinese restaurant in Beijing and sampled,rather cau- tiously,a bowl of rice and a mushroom dish.The result was something of a culture shock to the digestive system: The difference between