
Bjorn Shen, chef-owner of what is arguably Singapore best Middle Eastern restaurant, has decided spilled his culinary secrets – lucky us Artichoke fiends – in his first memoir-cookbook.
Titled Artichoke: Stories and Recipes from Singapore’s Most Rebellious Kitchen, the unpretentious and unapologetically casual book features over 90 recklessly creative recipes, which are accompanied by beautiful imagery and written in a friendly, convivial manner. More than that, it will also cover scrappy stories of cooking accidents, tasteless jokes, epic staff meals, masochistic behaviour, and more.
Sharpen those knives for chef Shen’s full-flavoured, sometimes wacky, recipes – like the Middle Eastern-inflected basturma-cured tuna, Oreo pancakes, and The Lamgasm. Published by Epigram Books (the same folks behind the wildly-popular Singaporean Supper Club cookbook Plusixfive by Goz Lee), the 256-page tome, priced at $44.90, will be launched on 27 September 2014 at Kinokuniya Orchard.
Artichoke, Sculpture Square, 161 Middle Road, Singapore 188978, p. 6336 6949. Open Tue-Fri 6:30pm-9:45pm; Sat 11:30am-2:45pm, 6:30pm-9:45pm; Sun 11:30am-2:45pm.
Top image: Artichoke cookbook cover (left), and Bjorn Shen (right), Epigram Books