Original Thai Cookbook (Paperback)

by Jennifer Brennan (Author) "There are few cities in the world where the urban dweller considers his city-London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Hong Kong-the..." (more)
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Product Details

• Paperback: 318 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade (June 4, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399510338
• ISBN-13: 978-0399510335
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #227,661 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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43 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic and Easy, July 12, 2000

By	Sally Reavis (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

We spent six weeks in Thailand, traveling the country from top to bottom. We kept a daily diary based upon what we ate and where we ate it. Most of the places we ate at were tiny cafe-style shops with one person both cooking and running the place. Loving Thai food, I made copious notes of the ingredients I could identify by sight, and asked the cook to point to ingredients I didn't understand. If he/she didn't have the product, I would write out a phonetic pronounciation of the Thai word, then go to the local market and ask the merchants to show me this item. (Needless to say, the vendors had a good laugh at my wild gesturing and mis-pronunciation.) Thailand was a great adventure and a feast for the palate. I came home with a dozen recipes of my favorite foods and went straight to the bookstore to compare the ingredients of "my" recipes with those of the Thai cookbooks available. Jennifer was dead-on. Her recipes were almost identical in simple ingredient composition and perfectly replicated the fresh flavors we had so recently experienced. Simple, delicious, and always successful. Jennifer demonstrates that good Thai cooking can be easy!

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Original Thai Cookbook, March 17, 2000

By	Tuptim Lane "[e-mail]" (Thailand) - See all my reviews

I wish to congratulate this book because this is the only book I've turned to in "drastic times" - times where I've had to impress my friends that I can cook Thai food. Being Thai, the recipes had to be right and taste good. Well, it has served me well time and time again. Jennifer Brennan, Congratulations!

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best comprehensive cookbook on Thai food in English, August 22, 1999

By	Tiah Foster (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews

I've travelled extensively and frequently in Thailand since 1972 and find this cookbook to be the single best authoratative guide to Thai cooking in English. It helps she gives the Thai spelling of ingredients, as you can take it with you to a Thai grocery store and be sure you are getting exactly what you need. She gives clear directions, especially for using ingredients new to a Western cook. And the recipes taste not only terrific, but 'right.'