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Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey: 150 New Recipes Evoking the Flavours of the Far East

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I love this new addition to my Rick Stein collection, it's crammed with delicious recipes and very tempting photographs. Rick has a great patter and will keep you entertained with his snippets from his travels and adventures. I found that some of the ingredients are a little awkward to source, I just have to travel into Atlanta. Many of these recipes are healthy so you can't go wrong with this purchase. Rick is very popular in my homeland and I'm hoping to purchase the DVD from this eastern series which I missed in the UK. I purchased my copy from amazon.co.uk, with a couple of other books ordered the overseas shipping costs and cheaper UK book price worked out better.

This cookbook was recommended to me by my brother, who, having spent a fair bit of time in Thailand was amazed to find a green chicken curry that actually tasted like a genuine Thai offering.

Stein has Anglicised the recipes, not to alter the flavour, but to use ingredients that can be found easily in the west, by visiting your local asian food store. But do not fear, the taste remains true to the original. You won't find any recipes that tell you to buy a curry paste and use two tablespoons. The recipe for all the pastes are found in the back of the book. The best thing about that, is that I can adjust the amount of heat to suit.

I've just loaned it to a friend, who is equally impressed, and now ordering her copy.

It also cost half as much here as it does off the shelf in Australia.

I bought this book after watching his TV show of the same name. We had just done a similar trip, so the show brought back good memories.
The book is great, easy reading and good simple cooking directions resulting in great authentic flavours and presentation. Certainly reccomend for yourselves or giving as a gift.

What a great book.. I watched the series and the book and food is just as great.. Rick is a great cook..

The book is as good as the TV series.....

Recommend it to anyone who it wanting to experiment with Asian cooking... We are currently working our way through Cambodia in the book....yummmmmmmy!!

This is a beautiful book put together with great recipes, beautiful pictures and is really well set out. Thanks Rick!