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It wasn’t just the making of the food, it was the stories she told me while we prepared it.

02 Mar 2023

7 min read

Condensing centuries of diverse culinary history into a 100-odd recipes is a big challenge, but this gilded book has done a tremendous job, and added an excellent guide to eating in Istanbul, too.

12 May 2017

6 min read

Confession time! This is my favorite recipe in Modern Asian Baking. Why? Well firstly, it’s super versatile and easy to make. Secondly, I’m simply addicted to snowflake crisps (or nougat cracker candy). I’ve finished entire bags on my own. (Don’t judge!) Each bite is an addictive harmony of yin and…

21 Sep 2022Recipes

Only a day shy of 2021, Christine took her last breaths, and with her went a lifetime of hard-to-replicate recipes.

04 Mar 2021

4 min read

I like to think of a tagine as a sort of stew with attitude. It’s really all about the spices and the slow cooking, giving all the wonderful flavours time to develop. What’s great is that you don’t need an authentic Moroccan tagine in order to recreate this beautiful food – a saucepan will still…

07 Jun 2024Recipes

It was a proper light-bulb moment when I realised how the two types of sweetness – the sharp, almost bitter sweetness of pomegranate and the savoury, sunny sweetness of tomato – can complement each other so gloriously.

31 Oct 2017Recipes

Navigate local and global food recipes and dinner ideas from more than 100 cuisines. Discover recipes & cooking secrets from around the world on SBS Food.

Finding my father's salan walah chawal recipe helped me through the grief of losing him.

26 Jul 2025

8 min read

There is a special place in my heart for gnocchi – done properly, it is a thing of great beauty. I prefer mine to be light pillows of goodness with enough structure so they hold nicely. Like most things in life, once you get the hang of it, gnocchi are relatively quick and simple to make. The trick…

24 Jul 2017Recipes

I am fully aware that I have a problem with trying to stuff tofu into everything I make. This dumpling filling recipe was my attempt to rectify that until I decided it ‘could use some added protein’. You could omit it and add extra spinach or water chestnut if you wish, or you could relax into it…

30 May 2022Recipes