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

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

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2007

From roadside to restaurant, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass presents a mouthwatering culinary tour of Southeast Asia's most scrumptious food. Enjoy an abundance of different dishes from Southeast Asia's rich and varied cuisine, such as Singapore's fascinating cosmopolitan offerings, Thailand's sinfully spicy dishes or Vietnam's refreshingly healthy recipes.

Featuring expertly-written text recipes from Wendy Hutton, one of the stars of Asian cuisine, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass will help you whip up an Asian festival of food in your very own kitchen!

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About the Author

Wendy Hutton, a New Zealander by birth, went to Southeast Asia in 1967 and has worked in the region ever since, specializing in writing on travel and food.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Periplus Editions; Paperback with Flaps edition (May 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0794602304
• ISBN-13: 978-0794602307
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #592,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #32 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > Asian > Vietnamese
  • #50 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > Asian > Thai

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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!