A Wine for One’s Home
Cambodian businessman and entrepreneur Edward Chea has taken a long and somewhat circuitous route to wine. It is a journey that has involved travelling the world over and cultivating...
Happy Birthday Sophie
I am sitting in a wine bar in Phnom Penh’s Old Quarter, enjoying lunch with Sophie Solnicki, the commercial director of Clos Fourtet, savouring some of her magnificent wines. It is noon...
Shomurice
At Red Mountain Estate Winery in central Myanmar, renowned ‘Master Chef’ judge U Ye is redefining one of Japan’s most iconic and theatrical dishes, ‘omurice,’ giving it a unique and distinctly local quality.
“In this...
The Bishop with the Bad Hand
The Maury AOC wine region in Roussillon, southwest France, lies deep in rugged Cathar country; It has a rich history of grape growing and wine production dating at...
Wine, Design & Inner Peace
Designing Time Machines
Phnom Penh’s magnificent new airport and the highly acclaimed Le Dôme winery in Saint Emilion share more than just the same design firm of Foster...
Cambodian Chef Wins Culinary World Cup in Paris
Held between September 11th and 14th, the inaugural Private Chef World Cup (PCWC2025) competition attracted chefs from around the world. The location, Village International de la Gastronomie,...
Goodbye La Maison
“We walk about under a load of memories which we long to share and somehow never can.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days
La Maison Birmane
For ten to fourteen days of almost every month for...
Cẩm An Dreaming
Cẩm An is a small coastal commune of the Quảng Nam Province in central Vietnam. It sits about four kilometres northeast of the UNESCO World Heritage town Hội An.
I have always...
