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A Malayan student at Adelaide University has capitalised on the fact that Australians generally like Asian food, and has pro duced an attractive cookery book, “Recipes of the Orient\ He is Ashar I lias Abbas, and in a foreword says that he learned how by trotting around his mother's kitchen at her apron strings.
This is one of the rare occasions we have reviewed a cook-book produced by a man— but for our money, we think there should be more of it.
Men, after all, do most of the eating.
The recipes in this book are made from ingredients obtain able in Australian cities and there are special instructions for soups, rice, noodles, fish, vege tables, meat, curries and sweets —all with Malayan, Chinese, Indonesian or Indian accents. (Published by Rigby Ltd., Adelaide.
Price 8/6.)