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Chef Norbert offers ready-to-heat greatness
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 31/12/2021
» One thing I always remember chef Norbert telling me, during my years as a food journalist, is that no matter how persevering a cook you are, you can never cook a great dish without good ingredients.
Examining the food on your plate
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 20/03/2020
» From a young age, Thais are taught to appreciate every grain of rice on their plate. Rice represents the dedication of hard-working farmers; it is also the sacred symbol of Thailand's culinary boom.
Too much on the plate of consumers
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 02/10/2015
» As children, we were taught to eat every single grain of rice on our plate. This was to treasure the hard work of rice farmers, as well as pay respect to rice: our dietary staple and part of our culinary heritage.
Prioritising pleasure above all else
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 23/04/2015
» I once witnessed a restaurant employee walk out on her job in the middle of a busy lunch rush simply because her Western boss commented on the quality of her work, which made her unhappy.
Small is beautiful
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 22/03/2013
» Until last year, Lor Yaowaraj, a Chinese grocery shop in the middle of Yaowarat, bustled with elderly customers and wholesale clients.
Mass shootings kill all of us
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 13/02/2013
» We were living only 60km away when the Columbine High School massacre took place in Colorado, USA, 14 years ago. It was one of the world's most shocking school shooting sprees. Since then, more than a dozen shooting massacres have horrified the world, including those at Virginia Tech in 2007, Northern Illinois University in 2008, Albertville Secondary School in Winnenden, Germany, in 2009 and Utoya Island youth camp in Buskerud, Norway, in 2011.
Dark night rises
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 07/09/2012
» I sniffed, I forked and I used my bare fingers to feel what was on the plate in front of me. Then I put it in my mouth, let it linger, hoping it would reveal itself.
Rebirth of a nation
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 09/03/2012
» This coming Sunday marks the first anniversary of one of Japan's worst natural disasters in its history. On March 11, 2011, the Land of the Rising Sun was shaken by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and its resulting tsunami caused widespread destruction across the country _ entire towns were engulfed, industries destroyed and numerous lives lost.
The Food Fights Back
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 03/02/2012
» Over the past several years, the Japanese food craze has proliferated around the world. Nippon restaurants are mushrooming in large cities worldwide, while much of the Japanese culinary lexicon is comfortably entering the world's dictionaries.