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Minimal tropical landscape with soft fog, muted neutral tones, and a calm shoreline horizon in an abstract editorial illustration style.

Land of Aromatics & Rice

Before there were dishes

A minimal square illustration of a single continuous path moving gently across an abstract landscape in muted neutral tones with soft gradients and high negative space

States

Minimal top-down illustration of Southeast Asian cooking ingredients and tools arranged on a neutral background

Ingredients

Minimal editorial illustration of a solitary human silhouette fading into fog, facing an open horizon in muted neutral tones.

Stories

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🇲🇾 How Malaysia Learned to Eat What It Could Grow

Sour, Salted, Fermented: The Logic of East Coast Flavours – Coming Soon.

Coconut Isn’t Everywhere (Even If We Think It Is) – Coming Soon.

Recent additions

This project documents food as a response to place and time.

Tracing how ingredients, techniques and habits formed under specific conditions and how those conditions changed over time and space.

👉 How This Record Was Put Together