N°1 The Lost Society

There cannot be more possibilities and layers of complexity embodied in food throughout human development. On one hand, it constructed a system that assembles taste, cultural memory and historical movements; on the other hand, the correlation between food and geography provides a hidden motivation to examine human behaviours and social transformation. This inaugural issue of te magazine adopts Ye Wuji's "The Lost Society" as the central theme. The term "lost" means ephemeral silence and enfeeblement rather than disappearance and extinction. This means that many cultures only dissipated temporarily, and some are metamorphised. Food happens to witness this transition, and the word "society" refers to a collective destiny. In this issue, we invited 13 creative practitioners of different disciplines — to bring in and reflect upon their respective expertise, knowledge system and research trajectories from and in anthropology, sociology, and contemporary art — to explore food as a multi-faceted intricacy, at the same time reconstruct the relationship between food and geography.


The Importance of Tea
Mary Jean Chan 




White-Tooth Socializing and Black-Tooth Civilization
interview with Cao Yu




Oystering Room
Cooking Sections




The Shape of Appetite
Tang Han, Zhou Xiaopeng




The Texture of Life        The Texture of Life: The Still Lifes of Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans            Felix Ho Yuen Chan




The pedigree of diaspora-The Hmong home recipe
Yia Vang




Cooking and longing: Bánh Củ Cải, Bún Mì Vàng Phúc Kiến and Chợ Lớn
Alvin Luong




The Lost Society
Ye Wuji




Nothing is Authentic in The World of Cuisine
Elia Nurvista




Murder Anecdote
Gu Tao