Lest We Forget

We zoom in on one chef who’s recreating well treasured recipes.

- Weets Goh

Like fashion or music, trends in cuisine also come and go. The reasons for dishes disappearing off menus these days range from changing consumer tastes to restaurants abandoning them because of the sheer amount of work needed to produce them. Sometimes, too, recipes are lost – a common occurrence in the pre-Internet era – or closely guarded by chefs who prefer to keep their culinary secrets instead of sharing them with the next generation.