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Cuisine Unplugged: Reinterpreting European Cuisine with an Asian Touch

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My amateur cooking skills have taken a quantum leap since my purchase of this superb collection of wonderful recipes. The author, apart from looking quite delicious himself (evident from the beautiful pictorials therein), has come through with the promise that his recipes would even make a novice look good. It is now my constant cooking companion for taking out the agony and putting on the style in great food presentation.

My husband raves that it's one of the best investments I've made in my book collection. I love entertaining at home and my guests are full of praise whenever I feature some of the recipes from the cook book. My most resounding success was when I hosted an entire dinner party, from finger food to dessert, straight from the pages of "Cuisine Unplugged"

Whilst living in London I was given this superb book for Christmas by my wife, whom so happens to be Singaporean. On a trip back home she had dined at the famed Saint Pierre restaurant, and raved about the food.

Like most wives, she was no doubt buying the book for herself, rather than looking to improve my infamous beans on toast with an injection of Lemongrass! But who cares; she has lovingly, and by the looks of things, quite simply, replicated some of the delicious creations found within the pages. Most of the ingredients these days can be found in even the most antiquated suburban supermarket, and we (well she) regularly impresses our dinner guests with some of our favourite recipes. No doubt it helps looking Oriental - I'm not sure they believe I've ever touched a Thai green chilli in my life, even when I have - AND paid the price later with a visit to the toilet, having forgotten to wash my hands...ouch!

I couldn't recommend this book highly enough, and is an absolute must for any bachelor (or out of favour husband) trying to impress any girl originating from anywhere East of Essex!