When you've spent a hungry year under a tree, you learn what food really means.

Sometime in the late 70s, a small boat set sail from South Vietnam, riding dangerously low in the water with its human cargo. Among the passengers were a young couple and their four children fleeing the chaos of war. They would spend the next 13 months surviving the uncertainty and hardship of a refugee camp before settling in a new and strange nation: Britain.

One of those children was Lynne Chang. "Lynne's Month of Meals" comprises 30 classic Indochinese recipes...