Green Mango and Lemon Grass: Southeast Asia's Best Recipes from Bangkok to Bali [Hardcover]

Wendy Hutton (Author), Masano Kawana (Photographer), Charmaine Solomon (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2003

From roadside to restaurant, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass presents a lip-smacking culinary tour of Southeast Asia’s most scrumptious food. From Singapore’s fascinating cosmopolitan offerings to Thailand’s sinfully spicy dishes and Vietnam’s refreshingly healthful recipes, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass explores the glorious splendor of Southeast Asia’s rich and varied cuisine. Featuring expertly-written text recipes from the diva of Asian cuisine, Wendy Hutton, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass will help you whip up an Asian festival of food in your very own kitchen!

This book ranks alongside other top selling titles such as Tropical Asian Cooking: Exotic Flavors from Equatorial Asia by Wendy Hutton; Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid; The Complete Asian Cookbook by Charmaine Solomon; and Seductions of Rice: A Cookbook by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid.

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About the Author

Wendy Hutton, a New Zealander by birth, first came to Southeast Asia in 1967 and has worked in the region ever since, specializing in writing on travel and food. She has eaten her way through every country in Asia, gathering recipes from cooks everywhere from simple villages to elegant restaurant kitchens. Since 1978, she has written or contributed to many books on Asian food, as well as writing reference books on Asian herbs and spices, vegetables and fruits. Hutton has been based in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, since 1989, living in a garden of tropical fruit trees and Asian herbs (which she shares with marauding squirrels).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 223 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079460157X
• ISBN-13: 978-0794601577
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #590,508 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reliable and handsome, February 26, 2006

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Kristina Sullivan (Mount Vernon, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Green Mango and Lemon Grass: Southeast Asia's Best Recipes from Bangkok to Bali (Hardcover)

Ms. Hutton offers reliable, clear recipes in a beautiful book, with clear advice as to ingredients, combinations, and cooking techniques. Lush photographs make everything look scrumptious. Good design keeps one recipe together on one page. I have had very good results with the three recipes I have tried. I bought the hardback because I expect to be using this book often, and appreciate the author's identification of recipes that require extra time and effort--a whole chapter. Another approach I appreciate is a good use of English that is not too British, not too American--but comprehensible to both, I hope. I am an American cook but sometimes use metric measures and having both is helpful.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book!, July 17, 2004

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This review is from: Green Mango and Lemon Grass: Southeast Asia's Best Recipes from Bangkok to Bali (Hardcover)

Not only is this book beautiful to look at, the recipes produce the most delicious (and authentic tasting) food. The simple recipes are easy enough even for people who aren't that confident in the kitchen (like my spouse); the fancier ones are perfect for dinner parties. Highly recommended!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!!, September 25, 2007

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naturopathicnd (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass: Southeast Asia's Best Recipes from Bangkok to Bali (Paperback)

I love this book - it is one of my favorite cookbooks. This has delicious easy to make recipes including many variations on noodle soups, fried rice, curries, appetisers etc. The recipes taste authentic, such as the Singaporian laksa - which is as good as any I have had in Singapore
It is very modern, the recipes are trendy, and the food tastes restaurant class. After cooking out of this cookbook it is very difficult to enjoy going out for Asian meals again - much nicer to cook it yourself using this book!