The Timor-Leste table from the cookbook chapter opener, laid with the dishes of the chapter.

Chapter 11

Timor-Leste

Corn, beans and fire.

  • 3recipes in the chapter
  • 1paste or dip

About the Timor-Leste chapter

One base: budu, a chilli, lime and tomato relish.

The shortest chapter, and the one furthest from the rest of the region - corn and beans rather than rice alone, and a Portuguese accent in the stews.

What it is built on

The base

The one this chapter is built on, in full.

All 51 foundations

The Complete Edition

The Timor-Leste chapter in full

All 3recipes, the headnotes, the pastes and dips, and the chapter’s place in the wider book — alongside the other ten chapters and the twenty-seven pantry studies that open the collection.

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