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Title: The Original Thai Cookbook by Jennifer Brennan ISBN: 0-399-51033-8 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: June, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Real Deal
Comment: I was an exchange student in Thailand in 1975. I was lucky enough to live in two homes during that year's stay that had outstanding cooks, one in an affluent home and one on a ranch/factory where I ate in the "executive" dining room three times a day. Meals would usually consist of 4 or 5 entrees, so during that year I sampled about every conceivable Thai recipe.
Jennifer Brennan's book's recipes produce the taste of real Thai cooking. If you want to cook Thai food like you get in a Thai home or on the streets in Thailand this is the book for you. Start with the Green Chicken Curry. For me this is the acid test, any Thai restaurant or cookbook that doesn't do curry right should be avoided. Other recipes I think are great are the Combination Fried Rice, Hot & Sour Shrimp Soup, Braised Chicken in Spices(outstanding), Chicken in Peanut Sauce, Sate, Thai Beef Salad(just like a Bangkok restaurant), Sweet & Sour Cucumbers, and Chopped Beef with Garnishes.
Unfortunately, many Thai cookbooks focus on glitzy pictures and the "Thai" food that you find in American Thai restaurants. The only time I every ate Pad Thai in Thailand was on a Western Hotel's tourist lunch buffet. If you spend the time to make your own curry pastes and cook these curries you will be rewarded. You will have authentic Thai food. This book is your guide to the real deal!
Rating: 3
Summary: Ketchup in Pad Thai???
Comment: I've had this book for years and although there's a lot that's good about it (and the recipes are tasty) this book has a pretty typical problem: it was written in 1981. Most experienced cooks know that cookbooks from this time period suffered from at least one of two problems: 1 (and this is not this book's problem) the confusion that oleo or veggie oil is butter or 2 (and this is this book's problem) a general lack of availability of authentic ingredients which leads to ridiculous substitutions which just don't quite work. No matter how many great stories JB tells, she still substitutes ketchup for tamarind paste and as much as I love my Pittsburgher Heinz 57 Lovin' soul, ketchup ain't tamarind.
Otherwise, not a bad cookbook, which I do reference often, if just to read JB's stories.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting information and recipes, but format needs work.
Comment: Recipes would be more user-friendly if formatted to make it possible to, at a glance, peruse the steps to follow, rather than have to read through the paragraphs and try to separate out the "to do" information. We like recipes to appear on one page, if possible, or at least to lay out so that ingredients and at least most of the preparation steps appear together.
Recipes could be simplified by using--or at least pointing out-- possible shortcuts making use of products available through Thai grocers. This cookbook would make Thai cooking more accessible if it informed users/cooks that these products are an option that in many cases, could simplify the recipes.
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Title: Cooking the Thai Way (Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks) by Supenn Harrison, Judy Monroe ISBN: 0822506084 Publisher: Lerner Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Simply Thai Cooking by Wandee Young, Byron Ayanoglu ISBN: 1896503187 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Everything Thai Cookbook: From Pad Thai to Lemongrass Chicken Skewers--300 Tasty, Tempting Thai Dishes to You Can Make at Home (Everything Series) by Jennifer Malott Kotylo ISBN: 1580627331 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ken Hom's Quick Wok: The Fastest Food in the East by Ken Hom, Jeremy Hopley ISBN: 0747276005 Publisher: Headline Book Pub Ltd Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Real Thai: The Best of Thailand's Regional Cooking by Nancie McDermott ISBN: 0811800172 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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