Stone of the Month: April 2014 Food Stones
This plate of meat, perhaps cooked pork, looks tempting, but it is better to look than taste. Each piece is actually a stone that resembles an edible treat. Food stones, a broad, general category of viewing stones, are not categorized within a specific stone type, but can be any of several different types of stones—agates, chalcedony, jaspers, and others. Collecting food stones is popular in China today. The majority of the stones originate in the Gobi Desert in the general region of Alashan in Inner Mongolia. Both the Feature Book Review and the Feature Article of the month focus on food stones.
