Tohutao My Family Feast

Arguably the most traditional dish in Bali.  Every village has its own version of this delicious salad. Red lawar is the traditional ceremonial dish to which pigs blood is added for the red colour. 

Bengali bride Shrabastee and her Punjabi groom represent the joining of two traditional Indian families and Sean is invited to their wedding, which consists of a colourful and opulent vegetarian feast.

BUN RIEU – Pork, crab and noodle soup

Nā Tam Le i whakarite.

Sean visits three homes to see the feast come together with a menu including roasted pig with an orange marinade, cooked in a curiously named, ‘China Box’ - a special portable oven Anerys imported from Florida.  Martha cooks, congri (sticky rice with black beans), stuffed potato balls are made along with Margarita’s special rice pudding and everyone’s favourite, tamales. Nobody will be left hungry or disappointed. 

A close-knit community of Burmese Kachin immigrants invite Sean Connolly to witness a traditional naming ceremony and he helps them to prepare the divine feast that follows.

Sean Connolly is invited to a very special weekend four generations of the Pacialeo family who get together each year in late Summer for a weekend of tomato bottling.  The women spend the day using unchanged techniques as the prepare Calabrian recipes that have been past down through many generations.