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Acknowledgements<br />
This book would not have been possible<br />
without the following people who generously<br />
shared their stories, recipes and delicious<br />
food, or assisted in other ways:<br />
• Beacou women’s group, Albina Tavares,<br />
Olinda Lagur and other friends (fish<br />
powder and bottled sardines)<br />
• shrimp harvester, Ana Juvita, and other<br />
women selling shrimp at Loes River bridge<br />
(Loes shrimp story)<br />
• Mariana from Marlelo Beach Restaurant<br />
(shrimp curry and poached fish)<br />
• Jose Simão and Maria from Empreza Di’ak,<br />
Super Mario from Adara, and Alberto<br />
(Atauro story)<br />
• Arnaldo de Araujo Gomes (Kelo) from<br />
Agora Food Studio (seaweed salsa)<br />
• Inacia Teme and Pedro Rodrigues (dried<br />
fish with chilli sauce)<br />
• Elly and Danny Lee from Ocean View<br />
Restaurant (Padang crab and story)<br />
• Rosa da Cunha (barbecued fish and<br />
Behau story)<br />
• Maria Jose da Cunha, and Jenny House<br />
and Dedi Martins from Blue Ventures<br />
(Behau story)<br />
• Albina, Francisca and other Obrata<br />
women who make and sell balixaun and<br />
ipu (Manatuto story)<br />
• Meri (papaya flowers with balixaun and<br />
ipu salsa)<br />
• Ililai women from the Fish House (defariti<br />
salad, bilimbi aimanas [chilli pickle] and<br />
gleaning adventures)<br />
• Angelo da Silva from Kati Guest House and<br />
Restaurant (braised octopus and story)<br />
• Adeliza de Fatima Quintao-Kiki (katupa<br />
weaving)<br />
• Agustinha’s family (dotuwai hamudara<br />
[fish baked in palm leaves])<br />
• xefi suco of Fatudere, Paul Soares Felipe,<br />
and Miranda, Januario and the other men<br />
and women from Adarai (ikan tukir [fish<br />
baked in bamboo] story and recipe)<br />
• Elisabeth de Araujo (tilapia story)<br />
• Imelia Noronha and friends, Joao and<br />
Abel da Silva from Leohito hatchery (story<br />
and tilapia soup)<br />
• Museum and Art Gallery of Northern<br />
Territory, Darwin, Australia (seaweed<br />
identification)<br />
• Wade Fairley and Joctan Dos Reis Lopes<br />
for their photographs<br />
• Alex Tilley, Mario Pereira, Lucas de Jesus<br />
Soares, Silvino Gomes, David Mills, Kendra<br />
Byrd, Jharendu Pant and other WorldFish<br />
staff for their support and ideas<br />
• Drivers Samuel, Agus and Jacinto<br />
• Ânia Soares for her encouragement and<br />
advice on calculating nutrition information<br />
• Chris Barlow, Ann Fleming and Max<br />
Troell for their encouragement to write<br />
this book and support with reference<br />
materials<br />
• Lila Ximenes and her son Daniel Ximenes<br />
Soares for translation assistance of the<br />
katupa weaving instructions<br />
• His Excellency Nobel Peace Prize Laureate<br />
Dr José Ramos-Horta for his generous<br />
support of Timorese women, like myself<br />
and my dream to write this book, and for<br />
his thoughts for the Foreword<br />
• Brigildo F.X. Martins and Ceú Lopes, for<br />
editing and proofreading assistance, and<br />
their support for the idea of this book<br />
• Mary Webb, for editing and proofreading.<br />
Cooking fish and seafood in Timor - <strong>Leste</strong> 127
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