Description
The perennial bestseller is back with a new look.
The first two editions of Simply Thai Cooking have sold over 100,000 copies, and it's not hard to see why. Thai cooking is exhilarating, it's exotic -- and it's easier to make than ever before. The exciting, flavorful ingredients can be found everywhere, and nothing else so magically combines the savory with the sweet, the tart with the spicy.
These easy-to-follow recipes for a wide range of Thai standards are virtually foolproof and taste deliciously authentic. In addition to a new cover treatment, this new edition features 16 new color photographs of this wonderfully enticing cuisine.
All the favorites are back:
- Thai cold spring rolls
- Chicken satay
- Lemongrass-shrimp soup
- Thai hot and sour soup
- Green papaya salad
- Glass noodle salad
- Pad thai
- Coconut noodles with chicken and shrimp
- Thai beef curry
- Marinated grilled beef
- Roast duck in red curry
- Pork with red chili sauce
- Shrimp in spicy coconut milk.
Most of these amazing recipes can be prepared in less than 30 minutes, and helpful hints on the essentials of Thai cuisine will appeal to beginner and experienced home cooks alike.
About the authors
Wandee Young and Byron Ayanoglu
Fluent in five languages, a graduate of McGill University, widely travelled Byron Ayanoglu is the author of twelve books: fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks and restaurant guides as well as fourteen stage plays, including Ordinaryman. He has worked in film and TV, including co-host of Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Greek Islands Episode, 2008, host of Roadside Restaurants, a ninety-minute restaurant-cooking show for PBS, 1997. He is also the writer and producer of Faces of Myth (2004), Mimetoliths (2006), Shapeshifter (2007), and MasterClass with Walter Lassally (2008).
