Dinner under the summer night light.
Pairing of monastic cuisine = Mount Athos and China.
Two culinary cultures – western and eastern with common mental virtue.
Two chefs.
A local and a Chinese one.
The menu wrapped in a ‘stick’ full of history.
The flavors wrapped around it.
Monastic food = from Mount Athos and Monk Epiphanius to the Qufu of the meditator Confucius.