​AUDREY CHIN 

To find out more about what we ate in Yunnan, including my encounter with a 40 year old mother of all hams, read the article here: A myth Growing up, I was regaled by tales of the mythical mellow richness of the Xuanwei hams from northeastern Yunnan.  They were small boned, thin skinned, thick fleshed and tasted of high mountain air our China-born cook reminisced.  A plain winter-melon soup could be miraculously transformed by the addition of a piece of the bone. A few slices

.I wrote a post the other day about how a diagnostic profiling tool called Emergenetics could help improve communications dramatically. http://oddznns.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/better-communication-with-emergenetics-profiling/ It elicited a really thoughtful question – Would talking to people according to profile remove the complexity of human interaction. A counsellor I knew commented on Facebook that he would be wary of diagnostic tools as they tended to simplify. But perhap