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Andre Simon Shortlist Special: Sambal Shiok
Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith
English - March 03, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutes - 21.8 MBArts Fiction food books cooking authors reading foodwriting climate sustainability Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the 5th episode of this special series celebrating the Andre Simon Awards 2021, Gilly discusses Mandy Yin’s shortlisted book Sambal Shiok with Singaporean writer, Sharon Wee while Mandy is on maternity leave. Sharon's 2012 book, Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen was a victim of plagiarism last year, which shook the global food community. But she hit back and is now working on a revised version which will be out later this year. You can hear her episode of Cooking the Books here.
As she compares the Singaporean Nonya kitchen with Mandy's Malaysian, she reveals some of the rich cultures which make up one of the most delicious cuisines in the world. But not before food assessor for the awards, Yemisi Aribisala tells us why Sambal Shiok is one of the best food books of 2021.
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