Mandalay Intro text — Cristian Barnett

Title: Mandalay
Author: MiMi Aye
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year: 2019
Art direction: Marie O’Shepherd
Design:Marie O’Shepherd
Food styling: MiMi Aye and Rukmini Iyer
Prop Styling: Matt Inwood.

A passionate advocate for Burmese cuisine, MiMi Aye celebrates the food of her heritage in this book, giving context to each recipe with stories from her family and her own time in Burma. The food at this location shoot was some of the most interesting I’ve had the pleasure to sample, uniquely combining techniques and ingredients from Thailand, India and China.