I held up the Seattle Times’ food section in front of my husband yesterday and said “we’re not in the Bay Area anymore.” He, nicely, did not say “duh.” I continued “there’s nothing about the Chinese New Year in here.” No reminiscences about sweets and auspicious foods. No recipes redolent with five-spice power. For New Year’s food coverage from a local paper, I need to head over to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where their food writer Hsiao-Ching Chou has the perspective to wax nostalgic over Lunar New Years past spent within a vibrant Asian community.