Susan Feniger's Street Food: Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes [Hardcover]

Susan Feniger (Author), Kajsa Alger (Author), Liz Lachman (Author)

Book Description

Release date: July 17, 2012

Over her thirty-year food career—from being one of the original Food Network stars and opening Border Grill to appearing on Top Chef Masters and creating STREET—celebrity chef Susan Feniger has continually found inspiration for her renowned cooking in street food carts around the world. In Susan Feniger’s Street Food, she shares 83 of her favorite recipes with home cooks, giving them a taste of these unexpected, tantalizing dishes.

On her globe-trotting adventures, with cooking and eating as the only shared language, Susan has forged friendships with rice farmers in Vietnam, women baking flatbread in Turkey, and nomadic cheesemakers in Mongolia. She’s become an expert on combining spices and ingredients to re-create authentic mind-blowing flavors back home. One bite of Artichokes with Lemon Za’atar Dipping Sauce confirms that they should never be eaten another way, and dinner should always be as enticing as crunchy and refreshing Saigon Chicken Salad, delicious Thai Drunken Shrimp with Rice Noodles, or sweet-savory Korean Glazed Short Ribs with Sesame and Asian Pear. Drinks, condiments, and sweets—such as indulgent and alluring Turkish Doughnuts with Rose Hip Jam—round out the recipe collection.

Susan’s personal travel stories and vacation snapshots inspire at every turn. Her expert tips on ingredients and easy substitutions, along with more than 100 color photographs, make Susan Feniger’s Street Food the perfect guide for home cooks looking to shake up their cooking repertoires with exciting new flavors. 

Editorial Reviews

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“I love the fact that Susan Feniger has done the legwork for us all and brought back tons of intoxicating street food recipes from all over the world. My next party is definitely including a platter of the miso-glazed chicken wings and some Thai drunken shrimp. Yum!”
—Bobby Flay
 
 “I would follow Susan Feniger anywhere around the world. She gently takes you out of your comfort zone into a world of delicious, exotic, yet comforting street food. No passport required!”
—Dana Delany
 
“This book teaches you more about finger food than you could ever learn on the street.”
—Bob Saget
 
“The most authentic and tastiest flavors of a culture are disseminated in street-side booths and carts often in dodgy and out-of-the-way alleys. In the absence of napkins and tablecloths you experience some of the greatest hospitality the world over. Susan Feniger’s Street Food depicts the delicious grittiness of the streets of Hanoi and Mumbai in characteristically expert fashion. American home cooks often struggle to re-create the flavors of Asia. The recipes in Street Food artfully bring you the international kitchen through Feniger’s cool California lens. They made my New York kitchen smell like Cambodia in the best and most poetic way.”
—Mario Batali

“This is one incredible journey around the world. Globe-trotting chef Susan Feniger helps you easily re-create astonishingly tasty treats in your own home. From irresistible Indonesian noodles and Indian puffed rice to tantalizing Turkish breads, Thai spices, sensational Saigon shrimp, and Szechuan sauces, this cookbook is packed with flavorful foods and the culinary adventure of a lifetime.”
—Robin Leach

“In the world of Los Angeles restaurants, Susan Feniger is a pioneer, for she indeed brings the food world right to our streets. She’s like the Marco Polo of chefs, traveling the globe and bringing back recipes we might never get to sample if it weren’t for Susan. She has this immense passion and talent to bring these food cultures together in a harmonious way. Dining at her brilliant restaurant STREET  is like eating at the ideal fantasy restaurant in the United Nations.”
—Nancy Silverton  

“This is food from all over the world that's so bone-suckingly good you will stop at nothing to have or make more.”
—NPR.org, best books of 2012

About the Author

SUSAN FENIGER is well-known for her three Border Grill restaurants and Too Hot Tamales Food Network show (all with business partner Mary Sue Milliken). She opened her first solo restaurant, Susan Feniger’s STREET, in Los Angeles in 2009. She helped start Cool Comedy–Hot Cuisine, the major annual fund-raising event for the Scleroderma Research Foundation, and is on the board of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Visit her at www.SusanFenigerSite.com.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter (July 17, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307952584
• ISBN-13: 978-0307952585
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 1 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Take a trip around the world and don't leave your kitchen July 30, 2012

By Andrew'sMom

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I've been a fan of Susan Feniger's for years. Loved her on Top Chef, Best Things on Food Network - and have enjoyed all her cookbooks.

This cookbook got me through waiting for a deposition in the Bronx - I wasn't happy sitting there waiting until I cracked open the book -- the book I did not patiently wait for -- I pestered the hell out of Susan on twitter and facebook - "when will it be out?" "when can we pre-order" - I was the one that actually told her it was available for pre-order because I checked every week! The stories of her travels are filled with details that you feel as if you are sitting there with her cleaning fish or sitting by a fire sharing stories.

The recipes - exotic, yet very doable in almost any kitchen - coconut curry caramel corn, miso glazed chicken wings with ginger scallion dipping sauce, banana fritters with coconut kaya jam, Indonesian tek-tek noodles with chopped peanut sauce - all out of this world.

Buy this book and take yourself on an international street food vacation!

PS - Highlight of our trip across the country - New York to California - was having brunch at her restaurant - the kaya toast - and the chicken croquettes - make your eyes roll back in your head! Delicious (I wish the chicken croquette recipe was in the book).

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, exciting and accessible cookbook August 14, 2012

By Cookbook Gal VINE™ VOICE

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I love this cookbook! I have over 1,000 cookbooks, and this one is not only different, it is fun and very accessible to the home cook - IF you can get your hand on the ingredients!

In the introduction, Susan Feniger explains that "aren't we all sick of making the same dishes over and over, mac 'n' cheese and blueberry muffins aside?" Her goal was to write a book that would share her love of street food around the world, and push the home cook to try new and exciting flavors. The book hits the mark, not just because of the recipes, but because Feniger is an entertaining and friendly guide to these places, the people, and their food.

I am puzzled by a previous reviewer stating that this is a vegan cookbook - it is not, but many of the recipes can be converted to vegetarian, or in some cases, vegan, by simply eliminating the fish or meat and substituting tofu or tempeh. While some of the recipes have a short list of ingredients, others require many ingredients. Where possible, Feniger provides easier-to-find substitutions for some of them. The good news is that with the internet, you can order a lot of the shelf-stable ingredients (palm sugar, rock sugar, etc.) from Amazon, Kalustyan's, or My Spice Sage. Almost every dish is accompanied by a photo.

As for the recipes, I've tried three: Cheese Grits with Three Pepper Relish, Malaysian Black Pepper Clams, and Chilled Soba Noodles with Spicy Orange Sesame and Tofu. All three of them were delicious (I made minor adjustments for my family's tastes). If you want to see other recipes, click on the "search inside the book" option at the top of the page to view recipes and see the table of contents. I am looking forward to trying many more of the recipes in this fun book!

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excited about this cookbook! July 18, 2012

By susan daniher

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I've been waiting for the arrival of this cookbook since I first ate at Street Restaurant. Everything I've had there is amazing and I'm thrilled to be able to have access to recipes for parties. My favorite dish is in this book: the Burmese Melon salad. Get the book just for this recipe and the rest will be a bonus. The book is filled with beautiful photos and recipes look easy to follow. Can't wait to test everything out!