The Asian Reporter
Pacific Northwest News q Volume 28 Number 16 q August 20, 2018 q www.asianreporter.com
Solar cookout aims to woo
traditional chefs, cut carbon
Hiroshima bombing
re-created using VR
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Constance Wu’s fight
for Crazy Rich Asians
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SOLAR VALLEY. A chef sets a plate with food cooked by solar cookers near a mini statue of mythical Chinese archer Houyi who, according to legend, shot down nine
suns before harnessing fire for humanity’s benefit, in Dezhou in eastern Shandong province, China. Two dozen chefs with white aprons and hats prepared soups, baked
“baozi” pork buns, and boiled rice porridge at a festival designed to demonstrate the potential of solar cookers that organizers claim can help reduce climate-changing
greenhouse-gas emissions. (AP Photo/Fu Ting)
By Sam McNeil and Fu Ting
The Associated Press
Xiong emphasizes
cultural understanding
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D
EZHOU, China — The savory
aromas of roasting hot dogs and
chicken kebabs wafted out of
metal and glass vacuum tubes heated by
mirrors curved to capture the sun’s heat.
Two dozen chefs with white aprons and
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hats prepared soups, baked “baozi” pork
buns, and boiled rice porridge at a festival
designed to demonstrate the potential of
solar cookers that organizers claim can
help reduce climate-changing greenhouse-
gas emissions.
“We aim to enable half of the world’s
population to use solar cooking within 10
years,” said Huang Ming, founder of Himin
Solar Energy Group, the solar cookout’s
main backer.
As hundreds of people strolled by, chefs
armed with oven mitts scaled ladders to
uncover piping-hot cooking tubes arrayed
on nearly six-foot-tall industrial racks.
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