Too bad that Emma Beddington used her one-stop eating experience to denounce eating food by the bowl or, as it’s called here, “bowlification” (Food should be tasty, and it doesn’t have to come in a bowl. Could someone tell my lovely American hosts?, 12 February).
I grew up eating food by the bowl. Memories abound of my eight-year-old self eating breakfast congee mixed with salted duck egg, minced pickled cabbage, and freshly chopped aromatic herbs, or swallowing down gentle, slightly salted and ginger-flavoured congee when I was sick.
