https://thewoksoflife.com/category/life/ a culinary genealogy Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:25:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-TWOL-favicon-4-32x32.png https://thewoksoflife.com/category/life/ 32 32 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-food-babies-and-toddlers/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-food-babies-and-toddlers/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:52:36 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=87154 In this article, I’m going to talk about preparing Chinese food for babies and toddlers! After posting articles about starting solids and weekly meal planning, it’s time to address this topic in more of a Woks of Life context.  While it may seem daunting, Chinese cuisine is actually great for babies and toddlers. The natural […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-food-babies-and-toddlers/feed/ 15 https://thewoksoflife.com/what-i-fed-my-toddler-this-week-7-day-meal-plan/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/what-i-fed-my-toddler-this-week-7-day-meal-plan/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:26:49 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=86822 What do you do when you’re making that transition from baby to toddler, and now you have to figure out how to prepare 3 meals a day plus a snack on top of juggling everything else you’ve got to do? Enter Sarah’s take charge, older-sister-on-steroids toddler meal plan. Say hello to Ethan, eighteen-month-old and junior taste […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/what-i-fed-my-toddler-this-week-7-day-meal-plan/feed/ 31 https://thewoksoflife.com/a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:25:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=76018 Hi everyone, this is an essay that I wrote for our cookbook, The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know and Love from a Chinese American Family, now available wherever books are sold. (If you haven’t already, grab a copy! It has 100 recipes, including 80 that aren’t on the blog, as well as lots of […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that/feed/ 68 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-zodiac-compatibility/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-zodiac-compatibility/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:45:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=78391 Today, we’re sharing our (very informal) guide to Chinese zodiac compatibility! If you grew up in a Chinese family, chances are that over the years you’ve had parents and relatives drop cryptic hints about your zodiac animal sign, whether it’s about your personality or your future partner.  We’re no different, and this post is a […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-zodiac-compatibility/feed/ 27 https://thewoksoflife.com/introducing-a-new-member-of-the-woks-family/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/introducing-a-new-member-of-the-woks-family/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=77803 Today we have some very exciting news to share—a new addition to The Woks of Life family: Baby Ethan! Sarah and Justin recently welcomed this bundle of joy into the world, and despite the fact that he’s been cocooned at Sarah and Justin’s (flu season and all), he’s already become the star of all our […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/introducing-a-new-member-of-the-woks-family/feed/ 318 https://thewoksoflife.com/holiday-gift-guide-woksoflife/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/holiday-gift-guide-woksoflife/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:51:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=16673 If your mind is turning to holiday gifting, we’ve got a gift guide for every kind of person in your life, whether they be unfailingly practical, a constant traveler, a little artsy, a homebody, or fashion-forward. Check out our other gift guides! You might have seen that we have two other gift guides that are […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/holiday-gift-guide-woksoflife/feed/ 17 https://thewoksoflife.com/the-hostess-gifts-holiday-gift-guide/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/the-hostess-gifts-holiday-gift-guide/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:50:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=77086 Host or Hostess gifts can be so much more than a bottle of wine or other alcohol! A gift for the host of your evening (whatever gender they may be) is a lovely opportunity to preemptively thank them for the fun you’ll have and retroactively thank them for the time, thought, and effort that went […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/the-hostess-gifts-holiday-gift-guide/feed/ 2 https://thewoksoflife.com/gift-guide-kitchen-and-garden/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/gift-guide-kitchen-and-garden/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:50:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=77139 It’s our Kitchen and Garden gift guide, full of the select items we reach for again and again—for that cooking and/or gardening enthusiast in your life. The Kitchen and Garden Gift Guide Around the holidays, we often get questions from family and friends on the “best of” cooking tools. What’s worth it, what’s not, and […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/gift-guide-kitchen-and-garden/feed/ 2 https://thewoksoflife.com/woks-of-life-cookbook-nominated-james-beard-award/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/woks-of-life-cookbook-nominated-james-beard-award/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:40:58 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=72551 In yet another pinch-me moment surrounding our cookbook (First pinch-me moment: the book we’ve worked on for years gets published. Second: getting amazing feedback from some of our favorite creators. See: Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Andrew Zimmern, and so many others! Third: hitting the New York Times Bestseller list!), we found […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/woks-of-life-cookbook-nominated-james-beard-award/feed/ 222 https://thewoksoflife.com/west-coast-cookbook-tour/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/west-coast-cookbook-tour/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2023 05:01:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=70821 Hi everyone, to kick off the Year of the Rabbit, we’re headed west! You asked, and we answered. After the first leg of our book tour, Sarah and I will be coming to Seattle, L.A., and the Bay Area from February 7-11 for cookbook talks and signings!!! The Woks of Life west coast events schedule […]]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/west-coast-cookbook-tour/feed/ 39