“Would you like to be the new food editor?” These unexpected words came from the mouths of Charles Anderson and Hedley Thomas, who were, at the time, the features editor and deputy features editor of the South China Morning Post. (Anderson died in 2008, and Thomas is now an award-winning investigative journalist with The Australian.)The year was 1997, and when Anderson and Thomas took me out for lunch that day, I had been working at the Post for six months as an office assistant: the person who…
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