Growing Up in a Nonya Kitchen: A Peranakan Family’s Food Memories of Singapore (2nd Edition)

For a limited time we have copies signed by Sharon Wee. Revised and expanded from an earlier edition, this is a charmingly detailed and authoritative account of traditional cooking in the mid-twentieth century kitchen of a Singaporean family. In particular one of mixed Chinese and Malay descent, members of an ethnic group known as Peranakans. (Among the Peranakans, Nonyas are the married women, who keep traditions alive.) Generations of author Sharon Wee’s family story are woven into the recipes she has gathered from her mother, other relatives, and family friends. Her account reveals the many overlapping cultural influences in Singapore, as well as the changes which have taken place there with independence and modernization. Turning what was once passed along by direct kitchen training into written recipes, Wee includes a section on fundamental ingredients, equipment, and technique before launching into an array of very detailed recipes for an array of distinctive dishes, such as: Po