Sharon Wee: Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen

This week, Gilly is with New York food writer, Sharon Wee whose
book Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen tells the story of Peranakan
cuisine, a largely unknown type of cookery from Singapore,
Malaysia and Malacca which was part of a craft culture binding
Chinese women, including Sharon’s mother, into the fabric of a
very particular lifestyle.


Sharon’s book which first came out in 2012 in Singapore has
become much better known as the subject of plagiarism in an
astonishing story that has gripped the food community over the
last few months.  She’s not allowed to talk about it
for legal reasons, and Gilly is much more interested in a food
culture that was part of her early childhood in Penang, so here's
the story of the nonyas and the babas and a little known cuisine.


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