Make this homemade French onion dip recipe for a rich, creamy caramelised onion dip that will take you back in time to the dips you helped your mum make for backyard barbecues by stirring French onion soup mix into cream cheese or sour cream. This onion dip recipe makes an even more delicious dip and … Read more
This stuffed tomatoes recipe makes Cambodian tomates farcies, a culinary remnant of the French colonial period when Cambodia was a French protectorate and part of French Indochina, along with Vietnam and Laos. A delicious starter or side dish when cooked in the home, in Cambodia tomates farcies are sold on the street and in markets, … Read more
This classic spaghetti Bolognese recipe and the surprising Italian-Australian history of spaghetti Bolognese comes courtesy of food writer Matt Preston, whose World of Flavour, The Recipes, Myths and Surprising Stories Behind the World’s Best-Loved Food is a cookbook as much as a myth-busting culinary history that sets the record straight: ‘spag bol’ is not Italian, it’s … Read more
Dispelling Cambodian cuisine myths seems to have become our part-time occupations. Not that we mind. No other Southeast Asian cuisine is so misunderstood and so under-appreciated – nor deserving of more attention. Let’s set a few things straight. Most visitors to Cambodia’s Siem Reap that we meet know little or nothing about Cambodian food and what … Read more
Burmese cuisine, as most writers tend to label the cuisine of the country formerly known as Burma, now formally known as Myanmar, is complex. Burmese cuisine is also bloody delicious and reason alone to get to Myanmar now. One of the real delights of travelling around Myanmar is the opportunity a trip affords to sample … Read more