Customer Reviews

The Book of Thai Cooking

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I feel lucky to have stumbled upon this book. Wow! There are a ton of exquisite color photos that show ingredients, preparation, and presentation ideas for every wonderful recipe. It was difficult to believe that this book was so reasonbly priced for what you get. A lot of time and effort went into making this a beautiful and helpful cookbook. I couldn't put it down before beginning a grocery list for the first three recipes I'll try tonight.

If you are interested in learning Thai cooking and don't know what lemongrass looks like, the difference between a lime and a kaffir lime, or what galangal is, you need this book! I promise, you will not be disappointed.

A lot of Thai cooking is based on visual appeal. The value of this book is the color photography of the finished dishes and list of ingredients specific to Thai cooking. There are not a lot of recipes in this book, but you can modify the ones here and make Thai inspired salads, rice dishes and your own creations based on these. The essential recipes are all here and generally this is a very good overview of Thai cooking, though by no means comprehensive.

Having owned "Chinese Cookery" by Rose Cheng & Michele Morris for probably twenty years now, and having loved every recipe I have ever made from it, I had great hopes that HP Books would come through again with "The Book of Thai Cooking."

The lovely pictures in this cookbook look just exactly like what you get when you prepare the recipe. In my experience with two recipes I've tried though, the pictures probably taste better than what the recipes will produce, should one choose to lick them.

All in all I'm quite disappointed by this book and probably won't try any more of its recipes.

Does anyone know of a good Thai cookbook?

The book looks great, but the recipes are bad. Try to find a Thai cooking book that is written by a Thai person.