I knew exactly how England would smell because every year my English grandmother sent us an enormous Christmas parcel. When we opened it there was a smell of simnel cake and English new books (that was quite different from the smell of Indian new books) which we called 'theEngland smell'. Though I have to admit that sometimes I used to think, ‘But does England really exist? Maybe they have made it all up!’. Bridget Anderson and Stephen Anderson have written BURMA: FOOD FAMILY & CONFLICT as a testimony to three generations of loving and resilient women: their Burmese maternal great grandmother Ma Khin, her daughter, their grandmother Grandy, with whom they spent their childhood amid a very eurocentric South Wales of the 1970s, and their mother, a busy doctor who still found time to make 'a meatball curry todie for.' With over 40 original recipes combining the dramatic flavours of southeast Asia and British influences of the last century, the dishes reflect those served at Ma Khin Café in Valencia, Spain where Stephen is head chef and restauranteur. Interwoven among the sumptuous sweet and savoury dishes is the fascinating story of Ma Khin herself, a native Burmese woman who witnessed life in both Burma and England between the wars as the wife of a high-ranking English judge. With food, memory, and culture so closely linked, recipes such as Pavlova with Raspberries and Khao Swetaste that much sweeter with reminiscences of a country once known as Burma. In 2019, BURMA won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best Asian cookbook published outside of Asia.