Kalsom (right) won in the Food Heritage Books category for her book My Malaysian Food Journey at the recent Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2024. — KALSOM TAIB
At the recent Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2024 held in Lisbon, Portugal from 18 to 22 June 2025, The Star columnist Datin Kalsom Taib emerged victorious in the Food Heritage Books category for culinary memoir My Malaysian Food Journey.
My Malaysian Food Journey is a compilation of Kalsom’s fortnightly columns in The Star, which she turned into a book.
