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Day One as a Chinese Butcher Apprentice

I’ve got pork to sell and meat to chop. Today is the first day of my apprenticeship as a Chinese butcher. Last week I visited an open air market in Beijing, not too far from the Bird’s Nest. Open-air markets are a phenomena that seem to occur in just about every developing country in the [...]