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Title: Lonely Planet World Food Vietnam (Lonely Planet World Food Guides) by Richard Sterling ISBN: 1-86450-028-X Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fine fun book
Comment: As a food writer planning a trip to Vietnam (for personal, not food-related reasons), I found this book to be an excellent introduction to the culture and cuisine. I may never cook any of the recipes in it, but it's helped me know what to look for when I go, and to anticipate my trip even more. I thought it was very well-written. Sterling's sense of adventure and good living are apparent in the guide in an infectious, inviting way. He is judgemental about no one but the foreign young people who go to Vietnam to eat fake burgers and wiener schnitzel instead of the light, beautiful food. And the photographs are as compelling as the writing. Buy this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: fact correction on previous review
Comment: the reference to dog meat preperation contrary to Lonely Planet's description is from Robert Templer's _Shadow and Wind: A View of Modern Viet Nam_.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good companion piece - but not a cookbook on its own
Comment: The book is well put together but it is a more chatty version of a food guide. In its tone and topic it humanizes the Vietnamese via the vehicle of food removing stereotypes. It covers topics that other Vietnamese cookbooks do not cover very much such as, etiquette and placement of items in a greater meal context. Which for the traveler and non traveler is a very good thing.
However it is NOT a cookbook though it has some recipes. It's main focus is to enable you, the traveler, to experience Vietnamese food on location. Which this book does very well.
I found things somewhat factually wrong - the dog meat section. Though it tries to make you feel better about eating dog meat by saying that the dogs' lives are happy until their quick death -- certain instances of this are not true. Look up Temple's book on modern Vietnam _Shadows and Wind_ in describing how the dogs were beaten to death for tenderizing purposes to celebrate a New Year meal. This method may disturb some people but the ancient Romans practiced similiar methods (see Plutarch's essay on vegetarianism). Anyway, it is a flaw of fact.
This book proves to be a wonderful companion to other books such as, Trang's _Authentic Vietnamese_. It provides, in its small pages,information on modern food, history, and background information on Vietnam in a compact way that is well written and succinct. The photographs and layout are very well done creating a very pretty book. In conjunction with _Lonely Planet Vietnam_ it is indispensable.
For the cookbook enthusiast it is a good item for a collection emphasizing southeast Asian cuisine. It is a good source for background information and gives a more modern slant on things. It is a companion piece but not the main stay of a Vietnamese cookbook collection which it was never intended.
A good book and MUCH better than the Food of _insert cuisine here_ Periplus series.
1) compact and succint; 2) highly informative; 3) maps and amusing anectdotes; 4) good layout and design; 5) few recipes but recipes are very sound;
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Title: Lonely Planet Vietnam (LONELY PLANET VIETNAM) by Mason Florence, Virginia Jealous ISBN: 1740593553 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet World Food Thailand (Lonely Planet World Food Guides) by Joe Cummings ISBN: 1864500263 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook (Vietnamese Phasebook, 3rd Ed) by Thinh Hoang, Quynh-Tram Trinh, Tinh My Hoang ISBN: 0864426615 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet World Food India (Lonely Planet World Food Guides) by Martin Hughes, Sheema Mookherjee, Richard Somers Delacy ISBN: 1864503289 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet World Food: Japan (Lonely Planet World Food Guides) by John Ashburne, Yoshi Abe ISBN: 1740590104 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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