ABSTRACT

Over these two days we have been nourished by many flavoured foods for our thoughts and our bodies. We feel nurtured and revitalized. The Chinese know how to say all this in one sweeping character. We who frequent Chinese restaurants have seen displayed on a prominent wall, https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781410611390/c53dfb8c-badb-4990-8185-73cf2a8bf458/content/ifig00049_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> orienting us to an Oriental meaning of what it is to be nourished. Many of us know that this character reads “double happiness, two-folded happiness or enfolded joy.”