Lara Dunston 
The James Beard award winning cookbooks you need to add to your library include everything from the Book of the Year, The Whole Fish Cookbook by Australian chef Josh Niland to American Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin and The Whole Okra by Chris Smith, a perfect companion book. … Read more
This homemade furikake recipe with Southeast Asian flavours makes the umami-rich Japanese rice seasoning with a tropical Southeast Asian twist. Traditional furikake ingredients such as white and black sesame seeds and toasted nori are combined with dried Southeast Asian spices and herb powders. It’s completely addictive. I appreciate that my homemade furikake recipe with Southeast … Read more
This Southeast Asian pesto recipe makes an easy Asian style Italian pesto that you can stir through pastas or noodles, such as soba or udon, use as a salad dressing (potato salad is perfect), drizzle onto barbecue meats or skewers, dollop on Southeast Asian soups, spread onto Vietnamese banh mi or Cambodian num pang or … Read more
Coronavirus in Southeast Asia and travel – we’re covering the current status regarding COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia, travel restrictions, visa, insurance and quarantine requirements, movement restrictions, safety measures and social distancing requirements, and plans for opening up. We’ll update this country by country guide weekly. Update: the world is opening up! See this post … Read more
This sweet corn soup recipe with ginger, garlic, turmeric, and chilli oil is a gently-spiced, perfumed Southeast Asian-style soup made for the summer corn season. This quarantine cooking dish was partly inspired by Chinese egg drop soup and partly by the Southeast Asian ingredients of ginger, garlic, turmeric, and galangal that we love so much. … Read more