Food Explorer / Storyteller

Shanti Christensen, storyteller and food explorer, travels China meeting families who teach her their favorite home-style recipes. She writes and photographs for ShowShanti.com while collecting recipes for her future cookbook. Her Filipino mother and Danish-American father passed their wanderlust and passion for food to her through their own stories. Shanti and her husband are from San Francisco and have lived in Beijing since January 2007. Shanti enjoys making dinner for friends and family, bringing new flavors and tales to the table.

Why did I start this project?

Project Assistant

Adeline He (何菊玲), born in Hubei and living in Beijing, has a passion for reading and writing. She studied English Literature at Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology. One of her English teachers told her she possessed a Victorian style of writing when once she used the word “azure” to describe the sky.

Adeline has joined the ShowShanti project with a great familiarity of the digital space; she reads the New York Times every day and is about to launch her own blog.

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