Eat Lao

Name: Eat Lao
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781922779120
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Recipes from a Lao Kitchen

By Sam Sempill

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Eat Lao by Sam Sempill offers a delightful exploration into Lao cuisine, weaving traditional recipes with vivid narratives of Lao culture. Through beautifully illustrated dishes, the book provides an authentic guide to Lao cooking, inviting readers to savour the rich flavours and aromas with easy-to-follow recipes. It's not just a cookbook but a cultural journey to the heart of Laos.
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You might enjoy this book if you are keen on exploring the flavours and culinary traditions of Laos. It offers a vibrant insight into Laotian cooking with authentic recipes that are both accessible and rewarding for home cooks. Perfect for those looking to expand their culinary repertoire with unique and delicious dishes.

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Sam Sempill was born in Australia and raised in a traditional Lao family.

The recipes in Eat Lao follow the trail of Sam's grandmother's cooking back to Lao. The food her grandmother cooked has remained a constant in Sam's life, providing her with a connection back to a country she left as a child. They celebrate the uniqueness of the Lao food tradition. Each recipe, like the scent of a signature perfume, evokes memories of a certain moment in time and tells the story of her family's journey from Lao to Australia.

Through compiling these recipes, Sam has discovered the central role that food has played in her family's life, and how food was used to communicate empathy and love, in a family where hugs and kisses were substituted with soups and braises.

The recipes in this book aim to keep those memories alive and to share the unique flavours, joy, and love of cooking from a Lao kitchen.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922779120

Publisher: Melbourne Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 October 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Melbourne Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 247.0mm

Weight: 872g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Sam Sempill is a Lao-born Melbourne Architect. In 2001, while studying for her architecture degree at the University of Melbourne, she opened a restaurant in Fitzroy where, together with her mother and grandmother, she cooked family recipes. After finishing her degree, Sam became a registered architect and has worked at a range of Melbourne architectural studios, including her own architecture and textile studio in Carlton. Sam is an award-winning artist, and weaver, with works previously displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria. Inspired by her Lao heritage and family traditions, Sam is a self-taught textile artist and hand-weaver. Many of the textiles seen in this book have been designed and hand woven by Sam, and the antique Lao textiles are family heirloom pieces, many of which were woven by her grandmother. All illustrations seen in this book are by Sam.