Husband-and-wife food bloggers and podcasters Sonja and Alex Overhiser have a new cookbook that uses a simple step to keep the kitchen a less heated place for two chefs: clear, alternating roles. A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together lays out ingredients and directions for a wide array of dishes, like any other cookbook, … Read more
There is no denying that Hongkongers love their meat. The city has the fourth highest meat consumption per capita in the world, at 123kg per year, according to the latest statistics from the World Population Review, including one of the highest per capita figures for pork consumption, at 53kg per year. To many, it is … Read more
On page 35, there is a recipe for hung yuen guy ding – almond boneless chicken. But the dish bears little resemblance to the crispy battered chicken on shredded lettuce Kung writes about, known today as “ABC”. Chinese-American chef Jon Kung, who has a recipe for almond boneless chicken in his cookbook Kung Food. Photo: … Read more
A few years ago I worked on a cookbook with a chef whose recipes were, shall we say, less than precise. As an old-school cook, he worked primarily by touch and intuition, adding a pinch of this and a splash of that without measuring. By sight, he knew when there was enough spice, when a … Read more
The women were particularly good at making one beloved Japanese comfort food: the pan-fried dumplings filled with minced pork and cabbage known as yaki-gyoza. Rie McClenny grew up in southwest Japan. Photo: Rie McClenny As McClenny recalls in her first cookbook Make it Japanese, they were absolute whizzes at folding dough wrappers around the savoury … Read more
“She was like, ‘But knowing your expertise in other areas and your perspective, you can still teach those of us who have been doing sourdough for a while a different way to look at it.’ So that kind of got me thinking,” recalls Tan while sipping his iced chai at a pulled-tea shop in Singapore’s … Read more
Long reviled as a manifesto of hate, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf has become the raw ingredient for an art project reconstituting the toxic text into something more savoury: a cookbook. In a cafe in the late Nazi leader’s native Austria, an artist is cutting up the book that laid the ideological foundations for Nazism – … Read more
But rather than being a collection of recipes for heart health or post-operative care, this book has been specifically created for trainee surgeons to improve their dexterity. Surgeon Dr Nirav Patel (left) and chef Fredrik Berselius from two-Michelin-star restaurant Aska found many similarities between the skills needed in their professions. Photo: Charlie Bennet Of course, … Read more
“It’s about taking these familiar ingredients that are often seen as a little bit bland, a little bit boring, and trying to give them gentle twists, to make them feel really exciting and rejuvenated,” she says. The cover of “Healthy Made Simple” by Ella Mills. Photo: AP Healthy Made Simple contains dishes Mills eats at … Read more
