Our favourite Burmese salads June 14, 2024 If you'd like to wow your guests, or perhaps just your own taste buds, here are two of my favourite Burmese salads. The recipes come from the Rangoon Sisters, and...
On the Shadow Tracks: a review June 07, 2024 This is a fearless, phenomenal book. Myanmar is a place where “history weigh[s] so heavily…that decades of it ha[ve] to be explained before any conversation with an outsider could even...
News from Yangon May 08, 2024 I was in Yangon last week to spend time with our new Country Manager, Yadanar. As always, it was an invaluable week plugging into the heart of the company and...
10 Reasons why Easter is the best festival in our calendars March 20, 2024 Number 1 - There is nothing more joyful than daffodils. Put them everywhere. They're £2 in the supermarket, or free from the garden if you're lucky. I put them on the table, in...
An Update from Burma: March 2024 March 19, 2024 We were in Yangon last week to catch up with our team and makers. I took Jenny, our new Operations Lead, who had never been to Burma before. It’s always...
Kalinko Curated by Alex Stedman March 15, 2024 Alex is the editor of the award-winning website The Frugality and the owner of a beautiful Edwardian house which she and her husband have renovated very slowly over the past three years. She...
Our Sustainability & Human-Rights Manifesto February 22, 2024 How do we support our makers within the most challenging of contexts? We have recently launched our HRDD & Environmental Sustainability Manifesto to walk you through it.
Podcast: Monocle, The Entrepreneurs December 06, 2023 Sophie sat down with Tom at Monocle to chat about how Kalinko came about and the challenges it is overcoming. Listen to the episode here.
The Changing Seasons October 19, 2023 Oooooh it's getting chilly. Did you have socks on in bed last night? If you have a fire, presumably you had it stoked. This morning, there are smiley faces in...
Can design affect our health and happiness? September 27, 2023 Last week, as part of the London Design Festival, Sophie joined the panel at Inhabit Hotels for a discussion around design and wellbeing, alongside Richard Holland from Holland Harvey architects and Marie Carlisle...
A Home for your Herbs July 25, 2023 Coriander is the king of the herbs in Burmese cooking. It goes in everything; Mohinga noodles in the morning, curry for lunch, fish for dinner. So it makes sense that...
Noodles July 05, 2023 When I first moved to Yangon in 2015, I worked in an office on one of the busiest streets in the heart of downtown. I lived about half a mile...
