Introducing a Thai-inspired vegan centrepiece for your Christmas table
All food is a celebration of something, but some dishes are especially celebratory. What makes them so? For me, they have to have a built-in “ta-da!” factor, and anything that you need to flip over, inverting it from a pan and on to a platter, helps no end with that. Savoury dishes with the word “cake” in their name also tend to please, as do ones with layers. These are just some of the things that make a dish “celebratory” for me, and there will be more for others still. One thing is a must, though: it should be very hard to walk into a room holding a celebratory dish without emitting a little whoop.