I’ve had my eye on The Kamogawa Food Detectives for a while because it seems like the cosy, heartwarming genre of Japanese fiction I like – books like What You’re Looking For is in the Library and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job come to mind as similar titles. And if you’ve read… Read More Book Review: The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
Recently, my foodie friend (or is it foodie enabler?) and I went to a pastry-based omakase! I was intrigued by the concept, which is why I agreed to go. And although I was a bit worried that I would not be full on pastries alone, I am happy to report that we had a GREAT… Read More Trying a Pastry-based Omakase at Ami Patisserie
I am writing this review somewhat handicapped because: 1) I did not write the review straightaway and 2) I had to reset my kobo and lost all my annotations. So here is a somewhat fuzzy review of this book on curry’s diverse history. Curry is the tale of how cultures influence food. In this book,… Read More Book Review: Curry by Lizzie Collingham
For the past two months, I have been intermittently searching the online newspaper and oral archives about the history of afternoon tea in Singapore and documenting my findings on Substack. The motivation was quite simple: I read a book about the history of afternoon tea in various countries and I wanted to do the same… Read More Why Isn’t There a Clearer History of Afternoon Tea in Singapore?
Hi friends! This is a post that I’ve been wanting to write for quite a while, and even though I don’t think I’ll ever have it done to the level I want (there’s just so much information that I can’t find with my limited resources), this is what I can best do at the moment.… Read More UniversiTEA: Milk Tea & Colonialism in Asia
This is, perhaps unsurprisingly, another book I found on Instagram! The lovely AqilahReads talked about this book and it intrigued me so I added it to the TBR list! If you are familiar with the criticisms of social media, not much of this book will be new to you. However, The Insta Food Diet’s food-specific… Read More Book Review: The Insta Food Diet by Pixie Turner
I recently read this blog post about the readymade desserts that you can find in French supermarkets, and it not only inspired me to try the desserts in the post, but it also inspired me to write about my three favourite snacks that I’ve discovered since I moved to Nice! I don’t actually know if… Read More My 3 Favourite French Supermarket Snacks
In my head, I know that I should be reviewing the last two ‘new teas’ that I bought recently, but I’ve just not been in the right headspace to sit with a tea. Instead, I’ve been drawn to a cocktail recipe from The Book of Afternoon Tea that involves Earl Grey. Here’s the thing about… Read More This may be my favourite way of drinking Earl Grey
There isn’t a good reason for me to be shocked by the fact that butter has a book dedicated to it, given that I have multiple books dedicated to tea and that is also a food product, but I was surprised and very intrigued. I grew up eating margarine on toast but in the past… Read More Book Review: Butter by Elaine Khosrova
I might have mentioned this before, but I’m harnessing my current momentum/desire to read books about or inspired by the history of the UK to make a dent in my TBR list and A History of English Food was one of these books. (I have this very bad habit where I’ll put a book on… Read More A History of English Food by Clarissa Dickson Wright