Paon: Real Balinese Cooking

Paon is a cookbook featuring over 80 Balinese dishes, essays, and photography that showcase the island's life, culture, and food, including sacred fare and zero-waste cooking. It explores six chapters: Foundations, From the Fields, From the Land, From the Sea, From the Pasar, and Rare and Ceremonial.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 04 May 2022
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Direct from the traditional home kitchens of Bali, Paon is a cookbook of authentic Balinese food and recipes. Sharing more than 80 dishes alongside essays and beautiful photography capturing the life, culture, and food from across this widely beloved island, Balinese locals Tjok Maya Kerthyasa and I Wayan Kresna Yasa shine a light on the depth and diversity of Balinese cuisine, with insight into food and worship, sacred fare, and zero-waste cooking.

Journey through rice fields, food forests, coastal towns, and bustling markets in six chapters: Foundations; From the Fields; From the Land; From the Sea; From the Pasar; and Rare and Ceremonial. With dishes ranging from elaborate ceremonial cuisine such as Bebek Betutu (Ubud-style smoked duck) to dishes that rely only on the simplest ingredients enjoyed at their unadorned best, such as Be Panggang (grilled spiced snapper), Paon reveals a largely untold story of the island: everyday Bali, modern Bali, agricultural Bali.

This is an essential cookbook for lovers of Indonesian food and culture.

Weight: 1236g
Dimension: 198 x 266 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781743797532