Khir Johari’s The Food Of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels Through The Archipelago – a tome that took 14 years from conception to publication, and which comes in at an impressive 3.2kg – has won the National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore History...
Khir Johari’s The Food Of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels Through The Archipelago – a tome that took 14 years from conception to publication, and which comes in at an impressive 3.2kg – has won the National University of Singapore Singapore History Prize.
Through the lens of the Malay archipelago, the 600-page volume establishes Singapore’s pre-colonial status as “the New York of the Nusantara” via essays, more than 400 photographs and 40 recipes. It also pays particular attention to how journeymen, migrants and traders of the area were integral to shaping the island’s unique culinary landscape.
“By the time the book was finally released, we’d lost 23 people. It’s a textbook example that if you don’t document, people are going to go. Allow me to say this one more time: The passing of an elder is like the closure of a library.” Judges praised it for extending Singapore and the region’s history back to long before Sir Stamford Raffles came into the picture.
Former Singapore diplomat Kishore Mahbubani, who chairs the prize’s five-member jury panel and who set up the prize in 2014 with the help of an anonymous donor, describes at a media conference the 21st century as that of the Great Asian Renaissance – his memoir, published in 2024, is titled Living The Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir.
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