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Delicious Vietnamese recipes with a serving of inspiration – the KOTO cookbook The cover of Koto: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam by Tracey Lister and Andreas Pohl. Photo: Jonathan Wong
When Australian chef Tracey Lister and her husband, Andreas Pohl, took a two-year sabbatical to live in Hanoi, Vietnam, helping to open a cooking school for disadvantaged youth was not on their agenda.
By chance, Lister met Jimmy Pham, who had founded KOTO - an acronym for Know One, Teach One - a business to help street children, which had outgrown its original space and was moving to larger premises. Born in Ho Chi Minh City to a Vietnamese mother and a Korean father, Pham migrated to Australia with his mother and siblings in 1980. Nineteen years later, armed with a degree in tourism, he moved back to Vietnam.