If you tend to makeorange chicken or sesame noodles when you’re craving Chinese food, your spice rack might be without an amazing and versatile ingredient: Chinese five spice. It’s said that ...

Five-spice powder is available from Chinese grocers, and is becoming more widely available in supermarkets too. A good blend should be fragrant and spicy but also slightly sweet.

Transfer to a bowl. Let cool a few moments, then transfer to a spice grinder or food processor and pulse to a fine dust. On a sheet pan, toss nuts with oil to coat evenly. Transfer to oven.

While most people refer to all four of the pig's limbs as the feet (or trotters), Chinese butchers call the front legs (which are larger, meatier and more expensive) the "hands" and the back legs ...