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Una Fuga Italiana a Siem Reap
For Pchum Ben, during September 2022, Luxardo Liqueurs & Distillates has teamed up with the Tomoka Cocktail Company to create a distinctly Italian ‘cocktail and culinary getaway’, in Cambodia’s favourite holiday destination, Siem Reap.
Talking...
Culture
A Dinner with Destiny
A Dinner with Destiny
10,000 Miles, 200 Years, 6 Generations
“Some food and wine dinners are all about the pairing, then there are those rare occasions, maybe only a handful of times in a...
Culture
Penh Folds – The Four Wines of Destiny
Penh Folds - The Four Wines of Destiny
“The Ox is slow but the Earth is Patient”
Confucius
The recent Spring Festival and Lunar New Year heralded in the arrival of the year of the...
Food
The Chinese Lantern Under a Bushel
The Chinese Lantern Under a Bushel
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness”
Chinese Proverb
The Tower
The Vattanac Capital Tower rises over Phnom Penh like a dragon’s tail, standing at 187.3 meters, it...
Travel
Independence Day
From Lost World to Last Hope
‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments...
Food
Bistronomy
Les Années Folles
“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong, nor the breathing...
Food
Truffle Hog
"Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas"
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), preface to ‘The Physiology of Taste’ (1825)
Truffles, those incredible little culinary luxuries that almost defy description, one should never...
Food
French Cheese Diplomacy
It was fifty years ago last month that French President, General and Statesman Charles de Gaulle made his famous speech at Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh in front of an estimated crowd of 100,000...