Great Leap Backward?
Chinese content to re-live Mao era - over a meal
Is it nostalgia for this period of starvation that has led to the recent spate of of restaurants that hark back to China's Cultural Revolution? Perhaps Europe can follow their example and open restaurants themed around the bubonic plague, complete with pustule-covered waiters.
Five decades ago, Mao launched the first communes -- which, of course, featured communal kitchens -- with the Great Leap Forward, an effort to spur the economy that instead caused a famine that killed as many as 30 million people.
Is it nostalgia for this period of starvation that has led to the recent spate of of restaurants that hark back to China's Cultural Revolution? Perhaps Europe can follow their example and open restaurants themed around the bubonic plague, complete with pustule-covered waiters.
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