One Sunday night, while a new acquaintance was talking about the provenance of the French pumpkin in one corner of the room, a friend and I, in another different corner, were talking about food. What do you regularly cook? What’s your go-to Youtube food channel? Is Italian seasoning racist? This friend, who later that night baked glorious chocolate chip cookies for us from a stash of frozen dough, then pointed me to the direction of what would be my obsession for the following weeks to come.
This new obsession is the 6.89-million-subscriber-strong Youtube channel of Dianxi Xiaoge, a.k.a. Apenjie, a “local Yunnan girl” who makes videos primarily about her village in the Chinese highlands…
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