Eat Lao

This book follows the memories of Sam Sempil's grandmother’s cooking, the cooking that provided her with a connection back to a country she left as a child. The recipes celebrate the uniqueness of the Lao food tradition. Each recipe, like the scent of a signature perfume, evokes memories of a certain moment in time. The recipes in this book aim to keep those memories alive and to share the unique flavours, joy & love of cooking from a Lao family kitchen. Through compiling these recipes, Sam discovered the comforting central role that food has played in her life, and how food was used to communicate empathy and love in a family where hugs and kisses were substituted with soups and braises. Sam Sempill is a Lao-born Australian architect.