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The winner of the World’s Best Asian Cookbook is….THE BURMA COOKBOOK [capital letter ours].
That’s right. The fat, colorful tome with some 175 recipes in it won the Asia category prize at the Gourmand World Cookbook awards ceremony in China last month, the Myanmar Times reported.
Readers of the book will notice its range. Like any good source of recipes, it’s got heft. The awesomely-named authors Robert Carmack and Morrison Polkinghorne were able to examine archives kept at the Strand Hotel. That leaves us with a book that has “lobster thermidor” as well as “mohinga.”
“As The Strand is the country’s most prestigious address, with its great reservoir of history, we used it as a linchpin to tie the book together,” Carmack told the newspaper. “The book profiles the history of the country and incorporates recipes from the colonial era. People have asked me why we included recipes like lobster thermidor. Well number one, because Myanmar has some of the world’s best lobster and, number two, this hotel has served it for a hundred years.”
The article also includes the recipe for “glossy black pork.” Check it out.
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