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Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
Author: Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid
Binding: Hardcover
Published: 02 October, 2000
ISBN: 1579651143
$30.60
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Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
by: Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
Not just a coffee table book!: 
I usually pick my cookbooks by number of recipes and quality of instruction. It is seldom I buy a cookbook that has lots of pictures and non-recipe discourse. However, this is probably one of the best cookbooks I have purchased in the last 2 years. It has clear, concise recipes from my favorite region for food - practically fool-proof (my husband even made the bok choi successfully!).
And adding to the food quality is the need to curl up with this cookbook as if it were a novel - wonderful descriptions... more info
Not Just Another Gorgeous Cookbook: 
With most cookbooks, you have to make a choice between style and content: it's either for the coffee table or the kitchen shelf. This book is different. It keeps going back and forth between my living room and kitchen.
The authors stay true to their subtitle, and take you on a seductive journey down the Mekong. The text features diary-like entries and beautiful photographs that make reading the book such a great experience. But the carefully-written and reliable recipes are the true stars, and yield... more info
Great text and recipes!: 
We own two other very good Asian cookbooks - and think this is a great cookbook - wonderful text that is fun to read on its own, and then also good recipes. The recipes are easy to follow and are accompanied with beautiful pictures that whet the appetite. We have some favorite meals from the book that we make regularly. Only caveat - we love our food hot, so we always at least triple the chile the recipes ask for.
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