Simply Thai Cooking [Paperback]

Wandee Young (Author), Byron Ayanoglu (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 6, 2003

125 easy and delicious Thai recipes.

Thai cuisine is considered one of the world's most delicious and continues to maintain its enormous popularity in North America with its unique blend of tastes: hot, sour, and sweet.

With fail-safe, easy-to-follow recipes, Simply Thai Cooking now includes fifteen new recipes and an expanded vegetarian and chicken section.

Create your favorites like Pad Thai, Yum Mamuang (Green Mango Salad), Nuer Num Mun Hoy (Beef with Oyster Sauce and Mushrooms) and Kaeng Khiao Wan Kai (Chicken in Thai Green Curry). Savor new tastes like Pad Kana (Chinese Broccoli with Shiitaki Mushrooms), Tom Ka Tofu (Coconut-Tofu Soup) and Kang Pa Kai (Jungle Curry Chicken).

Most of the dishes can be prepared in less than 30 minutes. Because these recipes provide excellent nutrition with little fat, they are as healthy as they are delicious.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This provides beginners with over 100 easily-prepared Thai dishes: unlike most Thai cookbooks, most can be prepared in under 30 minutes using ordinary ingredients available in any market (though access to an Asian market may be required for some items such as lime leaves and lemon grass). -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Wandee Young opened one of the very first Thai restaurants in North America and is a major contributor to the explosion of interest in Thai cooking.

Byron Ayanoglu was a personal chef for Mick Jagger and Robert DeNiro and is now a food writer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Robert Rose; 2nd edition (September 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 077880075X
• ISBN-13: 978-0778800750
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #518,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > Asian > Thai

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should have this cookbook, May 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Simply Thai Cooking (Paperback)

I used to go to one of Wandee Young's restaurants in Toronto all the time with my friends, so when I discovered that she had published a cookbook (including recipes from her restaurant), I was thrilled. Ever since I have bought this book I have prepared delicious meal after meal. My favorite dish is the Thai Spicy Noodles (with Pork). The preparation of this food is just as pleasurable as the consumption. As you cook, the wonderful smells of all the ingredients blending together will send shivers of delight down your spine. After eating Thai cuisine, my big complaint is the blandness of North American food. Thai cuisine is much healthier, just as easy to prepare, and bursting with flavor. Do yourself a favor and order this book now.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Straightforward approach to Thai cuisine, June 9, 2003

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R. D. Waters "rdwaters" (Newton, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simply Thai Cooking (Paperback)

This is one of the first Thai cookbooks I purchased. Since then I have purchased several others, but I keep coming back to this one as my starting point for creating an Asian menu. As most other reviewers have stated, the directions are clear and the ingredient list is manageable. Young offers some helpful tips along the way to make it easier.

Some of the humor sprinkled throughout the book is an unexpected surprise. I love the spicy chile sauce recipe where the last step is "call the fire department". There could be more photos in my opinion, but that is not a major issue.

All in all a good investment is you want to learn how to cook Thai food. And if you are like me, living in an area that is devoid of closeby Thai restaurants, it is a necessity for those of us who need our Thai "fix" on a regular basis.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Thai is Simply Crucial, December 7, 1997

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[e-mail] (Nevada City, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Simply Thai Cooking (Paperback)

Thai food lovers will dance around the kitchen while preparing these recipes,and those who dine at the table will widen their eyes in amazement that you, yes you, could have prepared such an incredibly authentic meal in such a remarkably short time. I have turned my 10 year old onto Thai, and prepared a dinner for 8 in less than an hour. This cookbook makes me a hero everytime. Low fat, high flavor, my friends are all asking me to gift them with this book for Christmas. I will do so willingly...Nothing would make me happier than to have them all cooking Simply Thai for me.