北京怀旧之冬储大白菜

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杰安迪, 北京怀旧之冬储大白菜. 纽约时报中文网, Dec 30, 2013 (under the heading 北京日志)
cn.nytimes.com/china/20131230/c30cabbage/

, which is translated from

Andrew Jacobs, As Winter Nears, China Is Blanketed in Green; Cabbage hoarding offers conmfort to an older generation. New York Times, Dec 12, 2013 (under the heading Beijing Journal).

Note: "The vegetal escarpments sometimes tower waist-high in public stairwells, competing for space with rusting bicycles and neatly stacked piles of the honeycomb coal briquettes that still heat countless homes here.
(a) vegetal (adj): of or about vegetable
(b) escarpment (n): "a long cliff or steep slope separating two comparatively level or more gently sloping surfaces and resulting from erosion or faulting"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/escarpment

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escarpment
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escarpment
(from the Italian scarpa, shoe)