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Books : Thai Food
by: David Thompson

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.59593
EAN: 9781580084628
ISBN: 1580084621
Label: Ten Speed Press
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: 2002-08
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Sales Rank: 101361
Studio: Ten Speed Press


Editorial Review:

Amazon.com'Thai cooking is a paradox,' writes Australian restaurateur David Thompson in his comprehensive and thus aptly named Thai Food. 'It uses robustly flavored ingredients--garlic, shrimp paste, chilies, lemongrass--and yet when they are melded during cooking they arrive at a sophisticated and often subtle elegance.' Pursuing this transformation in depth, his book presents hundreds of recipes that celebrate the Thai meal while exploring its historical and cultural context. Readers will delight in the wide selection of authentic dishes like Duck and Spring Onion Soup, Grilled Beef Salad, and Green Chicken Curry with Baby Corn, and relish Thompson's vast appreciation of his subject. Though the recipes are straightforward and workable once ingredients are assembled and techniques understood, those new to Thai cooking may want a less rigorous introduction to the subject. However, anyone with an appetite to explore it on Thompson's terms will benefit immensely.

Beginning with an exploration of Thailand's history and culture, the book then presents an extended section on rice, the centerpiece of the Thai meal. The 'cookbook' follows, with a systematic introduction to the Thai kitchen, ingredients, and equipment. The chapter 'Food Outside the Meal' is devoted to Thai snacks and vendor food, such as Stir-Fried Crisp Fish with Holy Basil. Noodle dishes include an exemplary pad thai, and sweet dishes like Grilled Bananas with Coconut Cream and Turmeric are also offered.

Readers should know that the recipes, published primarily for an Australian audience, give ingredients in a mix of metric and American measurements and/or with nonmetric equivalents, and that nomenclature is also sometimes foreign ('minced' for 'ground' meat, for example). With photos throughout, the book sets a standard for Thai cookbooks to come while helping many cooks achieve the true, richly exotic cuisine. --Arthur Boehm


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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Thai food
I am absolutely crazy about Thai cooking. Tried to make several recipes before but it did not work out (used curry sources from a bottle). Bought "Thai food" after reading a very good review of a famous Dutch gourmet and restaurant reviewer. Cooked 3 recipes so far - absolutely brilliant. The best thing is that the author offers recipes for curry pastes for every (curry) dish. A bit time consuming but tastes as good as in a Thai restaurant. Recommend to all Thai cooking lovers.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Bible of Thai Cooking
I have just returned from Thailand -- eating and cooking my way from south to wayyyy north. Every cook I met recommended this book as THE definitive Thai cookbook. I ordered it and read, with considerable fascination, the history and cultural context and evolution of Thai cooking, along with outstanding recipes.

You cannot go wrong with this comprehensive tome.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - best thai cooking book
I work in a kitchen and i am fond of asian food, especially Thai; there are many books on the subject; this is the best, maybe because the author is one of the world's best chefs specialized in Thai cuisine.



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Complicated
I'm no slouch in the kitchen and I've found nearly every recipe in this book astonishingly hard to make. Most of that is derived from the ridiculous lists of ingredients required to prepare every dish. It may be the most authentic Thai cookbook around, but it shouldn't require you to live in Thailand in order to make anything in it. Even in NYC it's hard to find a lot of this stuff. It probably has a lot of good recipes, but most of us will never know...

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