Minor Issues: From curry puff disaster to cooking for love

Cooking is therapy, problem-solving and intellectual stimulation, says the writer. PHOTO: UNSPLASH
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SINGAPORE - When I was 16, the curry puffs I made in Home Economics were voted unanimously Worst In Class.

Our teacher - who was into democratic peer review, watching her waistline or not a masochist for tasting adolescent failed kitchen experiments (or all three) - had given us the job of grading one another's amateur pastries.

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