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Title: Real Vegetarian Thai by Nancie McDermott ISBN: 0-8118-1151-4 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Delicious recipes, well laid-out book
Comment: Vegetarians have long bewailed the difficulty of making Thai food: almost every ready-made Thai curry paste available contains shrimp or worse. Now it is possible to concoct your own! McDermott has created an Eastern cookbook with a Western eye, taking the mystery out of this delicious cuisine. Recipes are categorised along familiar lines, exotic ingredients are explained in a glossary and sources listed, unusual techniques (from opening a coconut to roasting chillis) are fully explained. This cookbook is very helpful indeed: there's even a bibliography and a list of menu suggestions, you can alter the amount of heat in a dish to taste (I'm a wimp about chillis and am doing fine), and she is not too snobbish to suggest replacements, such as ginger if galanga is unavailable. The lay-out is clear and easy to follow, and there are several interesting anecdotes about McDermott's travels in Thailand and the traditional Thai way of life.
The recipes are imaginative, healthy, straightforward to make, and they work beautifully. Many of them are vegan, and adaptations are usually suggested for those which are not. A "Basic Recipes" section gives recipes for essentials such as the different curry pastes, roasted chilli paste, vegetable stock, and "mushroom mince" (which she has invented to replace minced meat in traditional recipes).
Some examples of recipes included are:
Crispy spring rolls with sweet and hot garlic sauce
Green papaya salad
Jasmine rice soup with mushrooms, green onions and crispy garlic
Red curry with eggplant and sweet peppers
Butternut squash in fresh green curry
Firecracker broccoli
Coconut ice cream
Thai iced tea
To my surprise, Thai cookery turned out not just to be possible for vegetarians and vegans (an astonishing number of recipes are here, and meat-eaters will certainly not feel deprived), but the ingredients are easy to find, the recipes easy to make, and the results are dazzling.
Rating: 4
Summary: Yum!
Comment: I spent about a year and a half in Thailand and am in love with the food of that country. I really enjoy this cookbook -- it gives vegetarian versions of a lot of my old favorite standby dishes. They are nothing particularly earth-shatteringly new, just tasty vegetarian versions of Thai dishes, which invariably contain fish sauce and meat or seafood. It's nice to rely on Nancie's suggestions rather than think up what vegetables go really well with panang curry all by myself. I still eat fish sauce, so I don't follow her recipes exactly, but they are tasty. I do wish it had more regional recipes in it though, especially ones to eat with sticky rice.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Most Usefull Cookbooks in My Library
Comment: This book has so many great recepies for just about any palate. Sometimes the recepies can look a little daunting and complicated, but it assumes you're using all fresh ingredients, which you don't always have to. After all, cumin powder is in my opinion just as good as fresh cumin seeds. Or more available anyway. Basically, once you take the time to create a few of the "staple" ingredients in this book (red and green curry paste are essential), you can make just about anything in here quickly and cheaply. And it's GOOD! I'm never going to forget the look on my friends' faces when I came out with an eggplant curry that I'd made from this book. Everyone was amazed. So if you want to do something different, and you're a bit creative, this book is for you.
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Title: Asian Vegetarian Cooking by Thidavadee Camsong, Peter Luffe ISBN: 0764100254 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Indian Vegetarian Cooking at Your House by Sunetra Humbad, Amy Schafer Boger ISBN: 1570670048 Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN) Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Thai Vegetarian Cooking by Vatcharin Bhumichitr ISBN: 1862055807 Publisher: Pavilion Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey ISBN: 0394748670 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Japanese Vegetarian Cooking: From Simple Soups to Sushi (Vegetarian Cooking) by Patricia Richfield ISBN: 0895948052 Publisher: Crossing Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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