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Sam Choy's Sampler: Hawaii's Favorite Recipes

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Well bound and with hearty paper stock, this book is made for the cook who wants to try some of the best Island recipes without having to learn how to dig a pit for Kalua pork. Sam has taken some of his best recipes, his old standards, from poke to sweet and sour (mmm!), his opah and his spicy soups, and placed them into one very easy to use book.
Again, Sam's at his best when he is explaining what the ingrediants and preparation process is, as well as giving lively history and substiution ingrediants for those of us without a nearby market. The back even has some ingrediant stores to get supplies from.
There's no downside to this book, other than than you could spend $... on his other books (some of which are fantastic- Seafood and poke for example) to get some of the best recipes which are all compiled in one easy to use place.
The recipes are all gems, which happens when you cull over 500 recipes into his best and easiest 80. If you could only buy one Hawaiian cookbook, this would be the one. And then you need to save up to buy some of his other cookbooks. It is a wonderful gift, and I am buying another to give to my island hungry friends.

Well Done, Sam, Very ono!

I bought this book while in Hawaii and immediatly made three dishes. All were wonderful. Not only did I love them, but my kids did too. Fancy finding a salad dressing that will get a six-year-old to gobble up his salad!!. The Huli Huli Chicken and Sweet and Sour Pork are worth the price of the book. I am so impressed that I will buy another Sam Choy cookbook. By the way, his restaurant in Kona is great as well!

He's Sam Choy, he cooks great Hawaiian food, and now he shows us how. What more can I say?