LOWELL — The city may have the second-largest Cambodian-American population in the U.S. after Long Beach, California, but Lowell was cookbook author Padma Lakshmi’s first stop when scouting locations ...
Cambodia's cuisine often gets less international attention than Thailand or Vietnam, but Khmer food is just as vibrant and steeped in history and culture. It's shaped by the country's rivers, rice ...
Chef Phila Lorn was not necessarily aiming for “quote-unquote authentic” Cambodian food when he opened Mawn in his native Philadelphia two years ago. So when he approached some Cambodian teen patrons, ...
“No one knows what Cambodian food is,” the Cambodian-American chef Joseph Be says. “But if Thai food, Vietnamese food and Lao food can be popular, why can’t Cambodia’s food?” Good question. There is ...
Shamilee Vellu is a Singapore-based journalist with two decades of experience covering global trends in luxury travel, wellness, and dining. Previously the editor-in-chief of Robb Report Singapore, ...
It should come as no surprise that the civilization that built Angkor Wat can also cook, but Khmer cuisine isn’t just unsung; it has been systematically erased. A millennium of cultural knowledge—an ...
Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. For chef Nite Yun, a 2018 Eater Young Gun and the author of the just-released cookbook, My Cambodia, an ingredient ...
Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...
Part historical record, part how-to for cooks, “Nhum,” a cookbook from the chef Rotanak Ros and Nataly Lee, pieces together recipes from a time before the country’s genocide. By Amelia Nierenberg As a ...