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| A few weeks ago I read about a seven-year-old girl from California who trotted off to the public library and came across a book on insects with the header – The Biggest Baddest Books for Boys. She was not impressed. |
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| George Town World Heritage Incorporated (GTWHI) Interpretative Centre opened to much fan fare yesterday with the presence of Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and GTWHI General Manager Madam Lim Chooi Ping who both officiated the event. |
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| A couple of years ago, I had the great pleasure of meeting Tan Ean Nee after she launched her book “The Way Home” (together with co-author Joshua Wong), a chronicle of the lives of leprosy patients from the Sungai Buloh Settlement. Her tireless work to document and piece together broken families is truly inspiring. |
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| Hung high in collectors' homes or hidden away behind museum walls, 2D art can have the (often undeserved) reputation for being inaccessible. Street artist Ernest Zacharevic's recent work in George Town, Malaysia is anything but. |
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| Malaysia has its own version of Banksy - street artist Ernest Zacharevic. His latest piece of work, which highlights the problem of crime, has been painted over by the authorities - but not before being widely shared on social media. |
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| PENANG food ambassador and fifth-generation Nyonya Pearly Kee has produced her first cookbook called ‘A Nyonya Inheritance’.
The 98-page hardcover book features 35 traditional Penang Nyonya recipes for dishes like assam laksa, nasi ulam, tau eu bak, sambal udang, otak-otak and chun pneah. |
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| MALAYSIAN chef Pearly Kee added some extra spice to the kitchen of the King Valley’s Pizzini Wines at the weekend.
She was invited to make the visit to the North East after meeting winery owners Katrina and Fred Pizzini at her cooking school in George Town and discovering they shared a similar food philosophy. She was invited to make the visit to the North East after meeting winery owners Katrina and Fred Pizzini at her cooking school in George Town and discovering they shared a similar food philosophy. Katrina runs cooking school, A tavola! “We loved it so much that we invited Pearly to run a class in my cooking school back in Australia, and she accepted immediately,” Ms Pizzini said. On Saturday morning 10 lucky cooks were taught how to make traditional dishes including chicken rendang, sambal goreng, laksa and pork pai ti. Dishes were matched with Pizzini wines. “We had the pinot grigio with the prawn sambal goreng,” Ms Pizzini said. “Because the food is a bit on the rich side the pinot grigio came through the richness.” Ms Pizzini said Kee’s relationship with food was deeper than taste and satisfaction. “Her food is based around health and stories of her culture,” Ms Pizzini said. “So it’s not only delicious, there is always a story to the dish.” Link to original. |
 Picture: BEN EYLES |