A Cook Abroad episode 6 – Rachel Khoo’s Malaysia: Cook and food writer Rachel Khoo heads to Malaysia, home of her extended family, to explore one of the world’s most exciting cuisines. From the tropical shores of a remote fishing village to a foraged feast deep in the jungle, Rachel travels across this multicultural country to find out whether good food can unite a nation.
On this journey of discovery Rachel delves deep into her own family heritage. Starting in the country’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, she gets her first insights into Malaysian food and culture from family members she hasn’t seen since childhood. In her dad’s old school she meets cooks and students and begins to find out why Malaysian food is so complex.
Finally, in Penang, the undisputed food capital of the country and where her family story began, Rachel discovers why Malaysia is a great place to be young, female and Muslim. As she unpacks the multicultural culinary history of Malaysia, Rachel reveals layers of her own family history and gains a more profound understanding of what it means to be Malaysian.
A Cook Abroad episode 6 – Rachel Khoo’s Malaysia
Rachel Khoo is a British cook, author, and broadcaster who has hosted and co-hosted television cooking shows on the BBC, Food Network, and Netflix. Khoo released her second English-language cookbook, My Little French Kitchen, chronicling her travels across France, in September 2013, published by Michael Joseph. My Little French Kitchen sold upwards of 1,000 copies a week. In 2014, she completed filming two new cooking series for BBC Worldwide: Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: London and Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook.
Both series aired in the UK and internationally. In Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook, she visited various European and Eurasian cities, including Stockholm and Istanbul, and cooked dishes inspired by her travels. Her cookbook, Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook, was released in the UK on 12 February 2015. In November 2014, she travelled to Malaysia to film an episode of the series A Cook Abroad.
On 9 March 2015, BBC television aired A Cook Abroad: Rachel Khoo’s Malaysia, where she visited the home of her father’s extended family and explored the cuisine of the country. Khoo’s fourth television series, Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne, premiered in Australia on 23 July 2015 on the network SBS. In February 2016, she was announced as a new judge on the Australian TV cooking competition My Kitchen Rules, for the series’ 7th season. Khoo filmed the program in 2015 while travelling throughout Australia. The new season began airing on Seven Network beginning on 1 February 2016. Khoo appears in 6 episodes of the program.