It was a great book talk which took me to Melbourne: last month:Diane Holuigue and I were both on our way to Morocco. As I packed my bags, I saw a copy of my latest book “Dining with Dragons” on my desk ,on an impulse I dropped a copy into my suitcase, hoping that […]
Dining with Dragons We’ve just launched the Indiegogo campaign for Dining With Dragons! Pre-order and get your name in the book with a personally autographed copy. Ships Nov 2015! Order Dining With Dragons now, click here. Follow Dining With Dragons on Facebook, click here. Dining with DragonsDining with Dragons A book by Carol Selva […]
“And this book does not follow the norm, either. It is a food memoir that is different as it celebrates women, talks about social justice and about the power of food as an agent of social change,” explains Carol, 75, via phone from Sydney where she lives Chef Carol Selva Rajah’s new book, Dining With […]
Tribute to Nepal 2015 I never dreamed that I would ever see Nepal. There were so many stories, and descriptions of places and scenes conjured up for me and people to meet. When I got the invite I decided to take the plunge. Surprisingly, everything fell into place as though my visit had been pre-planned […]
THE ASIAN PENNYWORT — Gotu Kola — Centella Asiatic I often noticed that whenever Ramasamy walked past the bed of Gotu Kola, he would pick a few leaves to chew. At home in Malaysia, we had old Ramasamy, a frustrated gardener who had fled the rubber estates to work in my father’s orchid garden and […]
Pani puri or puffed wheat puri balls deepfried, stuffed with boiled potato pieces cubed with chopped coriander then drizzled just before eating with a sweet tamarind sauce. Slices of black lentil ground into a paste and fried into vadai then soaked in a cucumber yoghurt raita all rather bland and great for soothing the palate. […]
Charity dinner Having grown up in Malaysia, I have a natural affinity to deliciously tasty Malaysian cuisine. Classics like laksa, beef rendang, nasi lemak, chinese stewed pork or tau yu bak hold a special place in the hearts of many Malaysian foodies. When I first came to Sydney in the early 1980s, there was hardly […]
The Pandan Leaf, the Vanilla of the East The pandan leaf is the aromatic essence most commonly used in food right across South East Asian countries as well as in the Indian sub-continent, Sri Lanka and in the Pacific Islands beyond. The pandan is a ubiquitous herb that sprouts narrow and long shard- like leaves […]
Sush and Carol at ‘THE STRAND’ Yangon. 2014 I never dreamt that I would ever be walking through the messy crowds of Yangon with my friend, Sush. After all, Sush lived in Florida and I was in Sydney, Australia. Who thought our paths would cross. But cross they did, when we met in Singapore one […]
Some hard facts.Rice, eaten by more than 1/2 of the world’s 7.2 billion people is at crisis point. Its synergistic relationship with water, the effects of climate, flood, drought and dwindling farming land as population numbers rise are pressing global issues that face the world today.Each day, millions of people around the planet depend on […]
