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New Nhum cookbook celebrates millennia of Cambodian cuisine
Mon, 26 April 2021
Ros Rotanak was visiting family in Siem Reap province one year when she ate something so delicious it changed her life. The village elders had gotten together and cooked a duck and lemongrass sour soup with palm fruit and it was so good that she remembers every detail of it to this day.
The villagers had spent several hours just on that one soup, from catching and slaughtering the duck to digging up the fresh vegetables and slicing them to pounding all of the ingredients into the lemongrass paste – even sending someone to go climb up a tall and slender palm tree to pick the fruit.
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