Hot Sour Salty Sweet by Jeffrey Alford

Hot Sour Salty Sweet by Jeffrey Alford

This culinary guide collects the results of the authors' travels through Asia's southern nations. Recipes, cooking techniques, stories and photographs have been collated from various countries including: Tibet; Burma; Vietnam; Cambodia; Laos; and Thailand.

Jeffrey Alford is a writer and photographer based primarily in northeast Thailand and Cambodia. He plants and harvests rice each year; helps raise frogs and several varieties of fish; and happily struggles along in three languages: Central Thai, Lao Isaan, and Northern Khmer. His forthcoming book, to be published in 2014, is tentatively titled How Pea Cooks: Food and Life in a Thai-Khmer Village. His earlier books, all co-written with Naomi Duguid, are Flatbreads and Flavors;HomeBaking; Seductions of Rice; Hot Sour Salty Sweet; Mangoes and Curry Leaves; and Beyond the Great Wall. Jeffrey is currently developing a series of intensive culinary tours through northeastern Thailand and western Cambodia (the Angkor Wat area) under the name of Heritage Food Thailand.Naomi Duguid is a writer, photographer, traveler, and home cook. Her recent cookbook Taste of Persia is the winner of a James Beard Award, an IACP Cookbook Award, and a Taste Canada Award. Her book Burma: Rivers of Flavor is also an IACP Cookbook Award and Taste Canada Award winner. Her six previous award-winning titles, co-authored with Jeffrey Alford, include two now-classic cookbooks that won the James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year: Flatbreads & Flavors: A Baker’s Atlas and Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia. Naomi leads small-group food-immersive trips to the Republic of Georgia and elsewhere. She is a Trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and is a frequent guest speaker and presenter at food conferences, particularly those focused on grains. She lives in Toronto. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @naomiduguid.

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ISBN 13	9781579651145
ISBN 10	1579651143
Title	Hot Sour Salty Sweet
Author	Jeffrey Alford
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Workman Publishing
Year published	2000-10-07
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Food Photography) 2001, Winner of James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Kitchen Aid Ckbk of Yr) 2001, Short-listed for James Beard Foundation Book Awards (International) 2001
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