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at-sunrice The Singapore Cooking School and Spice
Garden Asian Cuisine Article of the Year
This award seeks to recognise a journalist or a group
of journalists based in any of the 5 participating
countries (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
and Thailand) who have written an outstanding article,
which reflects and promotes the quality, variety and
vibrancy of Asian cuisine. The focus of the article
should be on the cuisine itself and not a chef or
a restaurant.
Examples of Asian cuisine include:
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Peranakan |
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Filipino |
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The submitted article must be published in any English
print or electronic medium (magazine, newspapers)
for the first time in any of the above participating
countries between 2 December 2001 and 1 October 2002.
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Into the Spicy Heartland of the Middle Kingdom
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Ron
Gluckman
DestinAsian
October
/ November 2002 (Indonesia)
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| On a long and exhilarating escapade in
Asia, Ron Gluckman has been deemed as a whimsical traveller
and an exalted American free-lance journalist. Stationed
in Beijing, his audacious interpretations of his invigorating
adventures immersed in the myriad of diverse cultures
of Asia have intrigued many readers and enthusiasts.
Gluckman's plethora of enlivening odysseys have been
penned in reputable magazines and newspapers, including
Time, Asiaweek, Newsweek, the South China Morning Post,
MSNBC, Discovery, The Washington Post and Wall Street
Journal. Some of his radical jaunts include touring
North Korea, Tibet, war-ravaged Cambodia and a Tahitian
in depth nuclear testing, seafaring with the Mongolian
Navy and getting trapped in a Burmese house arrest.
Gluckman's best asset as a journalist is his insatiable
appetite for the marvellous wonders of the world, which
has aided the penning of his extraordinary stories and
expeditions. |
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Kamasutra
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Anne
Loh & Faye Shen
Wine & Dine, September 2002 (Singapore) |
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food editor for Singapore's leading food and wine magazine,
Wine & Dine, Loh has managed to combine her two
loves - writing and food and beverage. Her interest
in food and wine was fired up ten years ago, resulting
in hospitality training, followed by an endless whirlwind
of tasting and walking into every cellar door she comes
across. Loh avidly supports the small producers and
operators who put their heart and soul into their life's
work. She is currently working towards her next wine
and food qualification.
Shen is a newly initiated food aficionado with an
appetite for all things authentic. As the editorial
assistant at Wine & Dine, she had the opportunity
to get up close and personal with the real world of
food. Shen is particularly interested in the origins
and evolution of food culture. She is currently pursuing
her first degree at the University of Melbourne. |
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Marco Polo's Chinese Wheat Affair
- Suryatini N Ganie
Djakarta - The City Life Magazine,
October 2002 (Indonesia)
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| Soar in the light blue skies with Garuda
Airlines and you may catch a glimpse of Ganie's literary
expose of fine cuisine in the GARUDA in-flight magazine.
She speaks Javanese, Sudanese, German, Portuguese and
Italian and has garnered 21 years of experience as a
stellar food columnist and penned the essence of gastronomic
artistry in four English and three Bahasa Indonesia
cookbooks. Ganie has been the chairman of the jury for
the Bimoli Cooking Award 2002, guest speaker at the
Indonesian Heritage Society Museum Nasional, Jakarta
in 2001 and a food consultant as managing director PT.
Sarana Vida Harja, gastronomy division. In salutation
towards her ardour for and great literary contribution
to the gastronomic scene, she has been twice awarded
the prestigious Parama Bhoga Nugraha from the Department
of Food and Horticulture Republic of Indonesia 1999,
and also the Adhikarya Wisata from the Department of
Tourism and Telecommunications. |
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Pearl River Enclave - Flavours of a Maritime
Empire
- Nick Walker
Asian Hotel & Catering Times, August 2002
(Hong Kong)
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| From the highest peaks of
Korea's Sorak mountains to the sunny beaches of southern
Thailand, Walker draws no boundaries when it comes to
adventure. His passion lies in the cultural grandeurs
of literature and music that has inspired him to see
through the publication of a plethora of articles as
well as the release of his debut music album, East of
Vladivostok in 1994. A feature writer with Asiafeatures98,
Walker's works have appeared in reputed Asian publications
such as the South China Morning Post, Tokyo Weekender
and The Japan Times. Currently penning his latest novel,
The Jade Sea, set in the northeast Asian arena of Shanghai,
Hong Kong, Macau, Japan and North Korea over the period
1937-1998, Nicholas is also dedicated to his monthly
column, Nick's Food Adventures. |
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Nature's Food Wrappers
- Chia Joo Suan
Flavours, September 2002 (Malaysia)
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| Unwrapping and revealing
her polished talent for feature writing in her article,
'Nature's Food Wrappers', Chia has scaled great solstices
and achieved vast recognition both as a food chemist
and a feature-writer. Her devotion to gastronomy has
been accentuated through her resolute perseverance for
a dazzling 25 years in her food chemist career at the
Food Technology Research Centre of Malaysian Agricultural
Research and Development Institute. As an esteemed columnist
for the food safety column in section two of The Star
newspaper, Malaysia, Chia has been a significant ambassador
for spreading forth the socially beneficial message
of food safety and nutrition. Chia's versatility in
writing has allowed for her artistic aspect to be apparent
through the creative food and lifestyle magazine, Flavours.
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