Mary Gomes

Mary Gomes learnt to cook from her mother and aunts. This was in the days of hand-grinding spices, scraping coconut, with no more help than a kuali and cleaver in the traditional Eurasian kitchen. No such modern accoutrement such as a blender or cake mixer. When she married her Chinese husband, she learnt the secrets of the nonya kitchen from her mother-in-law. Before long, she was fixing Sunday meals for her extended family and the community of St. Joseph’s Church on Victoria Street, a bastion of the Eurasian community in Singapore.Since the publication of her first cookbook, Mary has been a feature in heritage festivals, cooking classes and demonstrations and has even participated in The Pasar Malam Besar, the largest Eurasian festival in the world held annually at The Hague in the Netherlands.

Mary’s Recipes – A Celebration of a Singapore Kitchen
by Mary Gomes
ISBN: 9789810503932
Price: SGD30.00 (w/o GST)
Cook - Paperback
Horizon Books

Mary Gomes, author of bestseller The Eurasian Cookbook, presents her latest book Mary’s Recipes – A Celebration of a Singapore Kitchen, a collection of local favourites and more Eurasian dishes.
This book is not just a celebration of one family’s Eurasian and Peranakan heritage, but that of a true Singapore Kitchen.
Mary Gomes follows the successful publication in 2001 of her first book, The Eurasian Cookbook, with a collection of recipes featuring the myriad ethnic cuisines of her home, Singapore.
In this long awaited second cookbook, Mary shares with us her family’s secret recipes from chicken sambal buah keras to braised duck and shrimp sambal bostadar to nonya bak chang. Learn to make hawker favourites such as harlock prawns and old family dishes such as yam rice, all simplified for the modern cook.

“With this book, Mary has proved she is among the best in a dazzling array of women cookbook authors that we are so fortunate to have in Singapore. Long may they flourish.”
– From foreword by David Kraal

Eurasian Cookbook
by Mary Gomes
ISBN: 9789810443443
Price: SGD30.00 (w/o GST)
Cook - Paperback
Horizon Books

In this book, author Mary Gomes has delved into the kitchen archives of her family and friends to share with you the rich heritage of Eurasian food, a heritage that reflects the influence of a multitude of cultures - Portuguese, Dutch, English, Chinese, Malay, Indian and even Peranakan. After years of cooking for family, church, the corporate world and even a president or two, Mary has evolved a simple and short method for recipes that are slowly disappearing from our culinary landscape.


Take a look at this yummy recipe :
Curry Debal






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