Annie Cok

Annie and Rhys Cok

Pigs’ feet and roasted ginger made my traditional postpartum month off

Health

In Chinese tradition, women who give birth are supposed to spend a month indoors with their new babies. It’s not easy to follow that tradition here in the US, but one second-generation Chinese American woman in New York City did savor one part of the tradition — special foods made by her mother-in-law.