If there’s only one recipe book you’re adding to your kitchen this year, let it be Khir Johari’s The Food of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels through the Archipelago. Published in 2021 after a whopping 11 years' worth of research, the book recently won the title of Best Of All in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, which is the highest honour in the award’s history of three decades.