Chef Bolek

Four very small islands in two separate reefs. They sit in the middle of a large expanse of water. It could be the Timor Sea or perhaps the ...

As the story goes, it all began the Shish Mahal, which is currently located at the corners of West Prince's Street and Park Road. It was...

Whenever I order food from a particular Indian restaurant, I always include an appetizer of goat sukka (or sukha). As an aside, this particu...

Many towns are known from something or someone. When it comes to Loma Bonita, a town of about 41,000 people in Mexican State of Oaxaca, that...

  Ăn uống hài hoà   (Eat and drink harmoniously) Balance is important in every aspect of one's life, including what one cooks and eats. ...

One thing has become increasingly clear as I cook my way around the world: namely, that I have become a huge fan of fish sauce and recipes t...

Grilling clams is an easy way to prepare the shellfish. The heat of the grill cooks the clams in just minutes. The clams can be plucked off ...

Picture yourself in a place with a contrast of landscapes: mountains rising in the background, with cliffs that give way to valleys. As one ...

In my humble opinion, Cambodian cuisine has mastered the pairing of ginger to seafood. I don't know how they did or even when they did i...

I love to eat crawfish; and, in my cooking, I have made a few etoufees and gumbos that feature the freshwater crustaceans.  A while back, I ...

One can trace the origin of this recipe -- Crying Tiger (Suea Rong Hai) -- to its principal range, which extends from northeastern Thailand ...

I love the cuisine of Sri Lanka, which is known to curry almost everything. One particular aspect of this cuisine has really gotten my atten...

We had a lot of watermelon, which we had bought for our daughter's birthday party. I sliced the watermelon into kid-sized wedges. But, w...

There are a wide variety of fish dishes in Vietnamese cuisine, which is only to be expected given the country has 3,260 kilometers of coastl...

Scientists and botanists refer to a particular plant as Bixena orellana . It is a tree that is native to Central America and the Caribbean. ...

Thanks to aquaculture, oysters can be found pretty much anywhere in the world, even in places where one may least suspect their presence. On...