Selected written works
PhD Thesis
“A Taste of Empire. Food, the Colonial Kitchen and the Representation and Role of Servants in India, Malaysia and Singapore, c.1858-1963”, University of Western Australia, 2010 (Distinction)
Books
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, Urban Food Culture in Asia Pacific: Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore in the 20th Century, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Cecilia Leong-Salobir (editor). Routledge Handbook of Food in Asia. Oxford & New York: Routledge. 2019.
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire, London, Routledge, 2011.
Book Chapters
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, ‘Spreading the Word: Using Cookbooks and Colonial Memoirs to Examine the Foodways of British Colonials in Asia, 1850-1900’, in Carol Helstosky (ed) The Routledge History of Food, Routledge, 2014.
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, ‘Striving for Diversity and Equity’ in Jenny Gregory with Jean Chetkovich (eds.) Seeking Wisdom: A Centenary History of The University of Western Australia, University of Western Australia Publishing, 2013.
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, ‘Food Stories: culinary links of an island state and a continent’, in Ian Austin (ed) Australia-Singapore Relations: Successful Bilateral Relations in a Historical and Contemporary Context, Select Books, Singapore & Edith Cowan University, 2011.
Journal Articles:
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, “Introduction: Rescuing Taste from the Nation?”, Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, Special Issue, February 2016.
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, “‘Cookie’ and ‘Jungle Boy’: A Historical Sketch of the Different Cooks for Different Folks in British Colonial Southeast Asia c. 1850-1960”, Global Food History, Inaugural Edition, Volume 1, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, “Mem and Cookie: The colonial kitchen in Malaysia and Singapore,” Estudios de Asia y Africa, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, Special Edition, May 2015 (translated into Spanish).
Edited Journals:
Jackie Rohel, Krishnendu Ray, Cecilia Leong-Salobir, (eds) “Rescuing Taste from the Nation? Oceans, Borders and Culinary Flows”, Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, Special Issue, February 2016.
Ruth Morgan Cecilia Leong-Salobir, Jeremy Martens, (eds) ‘Western Australia in the Indian Ocean World’, Studies in Western Australian History, Centre for Western Australian History, Volume 28, 2013.
Review Articles:
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World. By Erika Rappaport. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2017. Pp. xiv, 549. Reviewed in American Historical Review. 04/01/2019, Vol.124(2), pp.605-607.
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, The Colonial Kitchen: Australia 1788–1901. By Charmaine O'Brien. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Reviewed in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2017.
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, The Globalization of Asian cuisines: transnational networks and culinary contact zones. By James Farrer. Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. Reviewed in Asian Studies Review, Vol 40, 2016.