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Hot sour salty sweet : a culinary journey through Southeast Asia / Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid.

by Alford, Jeffrey.

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Random House Canada, c2000.

Cooking, Southeast Asian.

Food habits -- Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia -- Description and travel.

9780679309505 (hc.)

346 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327) and index.

North Americans have come to love Southeast Asian food for its bright, fresh flavors. But beyond the dishes themselves, one of the most attractive aspects of Southeast Asian food is the life that surrounds it. In Southeast Asia, people eat for joy. The palate is wildly eclectic, proudly unrestrained. Now, this great culinary region is celebrated with all the passion, color, and life that it deserves. The book's more than 175 recipes for spicy salsas, welcoming soups, grilled meat salads, and exotic desserts are accompanied by evocative stories about places and people. The recipes and stories are gorgeously illustrated throughout with more than 150 full-color food and travel photographs. In each chapter, from Salsas to Street Foods, Noodles to Desserts, dishes from different cuisines within the region appear side by side: A hearty Lao chicken soup is next to a Vietnamese ginger-chicken soup; a Thai vegetable stir-fry comes after spicy stir-fried potatoes from southwest China.Jeffrey Aldord and Naomi Duguid are the authors of five other books on food and travel.

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