Chapter 11
Timor-Leste
Corn, beans and fire.
- 3recipes in the chapter
- 1paste or dip
About the Timor-Leste chapter
One base: budu, a chilli, lime and tomato relish.
The shortest chapter, and the one furthest from the rest of the region - corn and beans rather than rice alone, and a Portuguese accent in the stews.
What it is built on
The base
The one this chapter is built on, in full.
From this chapter
3 of the 3
A selection, not the whole chapter. All 100 are in the recipe index.
The Complete Edition
The Timor-Leste chapter in full
All 3recipes, the headnotes, the pastes and dips, and the chapter’s place in the wider book — alongside the other ten chapters and the twenty-seven pantry studies that open the collection.
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