A meal of a thousand bites begins with a single chew."" One grain of rice, and this minute spoof (by the editors of Monocle--we were Peking in the catalogue), is otherwise known as ""The Sinkiang Man's Diet."" It's full of scrutable ""agitpropwash"" which reduces all the happiest elements of life to a minimum absurdum and it is Mao-uthed with implosive good humor.