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What’s the story?

Since COVID-19 I started sharing a series of ‘social distancing’ recipes with my friends on social media. Some of them encouraged me to make a book, I laughed.

Then, during August, I shared my first Japanese curry recipe to a Facebook cooking group - ‘Subtle Asian Cooking’, and it gathered 2K+ likes overnight. That encouraged me to get over my imposter syndrome and start compiling these recipes into a book.

The book is A5 size, wire-bound, 140 pages thick.

Who the hell are you?

I’m a food photographer in Melbourne. I’ve shot for three-hat establishments, I’ve shot street food, assignments for major and minor publications. I’ve documented and written about the Melbourne ramen scene for Broadsheet. Those should quantify my understanding of the industry, the standard and level of techniques I observed from behind the scenes. Most importantly, I’m a househusband - I cook for my family.

What’s in the book?

I’ll tell you what’s NOT in the book: there will be NO stories about my childhood, no word salad consisting ‘memories’, ‘inspiration’, ‘enjoying the moment’, ‘love’, ‘epiphany’, no puns, or exotic travel photographs or random lemons in a fruit basket.

There will be NO inherited family prophecy that possessed me to pull out an Excalibur spatula from a stone, to cook.

I cook because I can’t afford to eat out every day.
Also, because I know what I like. Most restaurants, don’t.

These are real, practical dishes I make for my real, practical family and friends for the last 10 years.

Included are the little short cuts and pro tips I gathered along the way through painful trial and error.

It lays flat, flips easy.

It’s not a coffee table book, it’s made for the kitchen bench.

Why not eBook?

If you buy a cookbook and can’t physically show it to your guests, do you really own a cookbook? A physical book has texture and smell. Holding a book while you cook is so much more … poetic compared to squinting over a phone or a gadget.

If you can’t decide, why not buy both?
The eBook will come, once I have a complete book.