Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Cheong Liew: Inside My Food

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

  • About

Cheong learned to cook his first pigeon dish from a Greek chef who loved preparing wild pigeon with rosé, walnuts and cream. ‘His passion for pigeon had a big effect on me, and it prompted me to start exploring many different types of pigeon recipes.’

Method

One of Cheong’s favourites is based on Pigeon alla Toscana in the Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. The pigeon is cooked in a deep crockpot with cinnamon, several large bulbs of <