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Hot Sour Salty Sweet A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

by Jeffrey Alford
Hot Sour Salty Sweet A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

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ISBN13: 9781579651145
ISBN10: 1579651143
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Luminous at dawn and dusk, the Mekong is a river road, a vibrant artery that defines a vast and fascinating region. Here, along the world's tenth largest river, which rises in Tibet and joins the sea in Vietnam, traditions mingle and exquisite food prevails.

Award-winning authors Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid followed the river south, as it flows through the mountain gorges of southern China, to Burma and into Laos and Thailand. For a while the right bank of the river is in Thailand, but then it becomes solely Lao on its way to Cambodia. Only after three thousand miles does it finally enter Vietnam and then the South China Sea.

It was during their travels that Alford and Duguid—who ate traditional foods in villages and small towns and learned techniques and ingredients from cooks and market vendors—came to realize that the local cuisines, like those of the Mediterranean, share a distinctive culinary approach: Each cuisine balances, with grace and style, the regional flavor quartet of hot, sour, salty, and sweet. This book, aptly titled, is the result of their journeys.

Like Alford and Duguid's two previous works, Flatbreads and Flavors ("a certifiable publishing event" —Vogue) and Seductions of Rice ("simply stunning"—The New York Times), this book is a glorious combination of travel and taste, presenting enticing recipes in "an odyssey rich in travel anecdote" (National Geographic Traveler).

The book's more than 175 recipes for spicy salsas, welcoming soups, grilled meat salads, and exotic desserts are accompanied by evocative stories about places and people. The recipes and stories are gorgeously illustrated throughout with more than 150 full-color food and travel photographs.

In each chapter, from Salsas to Street Foods, Noodles to Desserts, dishes from different cuisines within the region appear side by side: A hearty Lao chicken soup is next to a Vietnamese ginger-chicken soup; a Thai vegetable stir-fry comes after spicy stir-fried potatoes from southwest China.

The book invites a flexible approach to cooking and eating, for dishes from different places can be happily served and eaten together: Thai Grilled Chicken with Hot and Sweet Dipping Sauce pairs beautifully with Vietnamese Green Papaya Salad and Lao sticky rice.

North Americans have come to love Southeast Asian food for its bright, fresh flavors. But beyond the dishes themselves, one of the most attractive aspects of Southeast Asian food is the life that surrounds it. In Southeast Asia, people eat for joy. The palate is wildly eclectic, proudly unrestrained. In Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet, at last this great culinary region is celebrated with all the passion, color, and life that it deserves.

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The culinary map of Southeast Asia is about to change, if award-winning cookbook authors Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid have their way. Realizing that the wonderful flavors of Southeast Asia spill over national borders, Alford and Duguid set out to eat their way through the region's towns and villages, all the while collecting recipes, cooking techniques, stories, and photographs.

In Hot Sour Salty Sweet, dishes like Spicy Grilled Beef Salad and Vietnamese Chicken with Fresh Herbs appear side by side with more exotic treats like Jungle Curry from Thailand and Pomelo Salad from Cambodia. There are simple warming soups, easy stir-fries, brilliant, hot salsas, and cooling desserts. Evocative stories and photographs of their travels also appear throughout.

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PRAISE FOR JEFFREY ALFORD AND NAOMI DUGUID'S AWARD-WINNING BOOKS:

Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas and Seductions of Rice

"Their latest book is simply stunning."—The New York Times

"A touching and vivid account" —Food and Wine

"A huge concept and Alford/Duguid are well suited to the task." —The Globe and Mail

"If you by one cookbook this year, make it this one." —USA Today

"A certifiable publishing event . . . a breakthrough . . ." —Vogue


About the Author

Jeffrey Alford is the author, along with Naomi Duguid, of six award-winning books on food and travel: Flatbreads & Flavors, HomeBaking, Seductions of Rice, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Mangoes and Curry Leaves, and Beyond the Great Wall. In stories, recipes, and photographs, the books explore daily home-cooked foods in their cultural context.

Alford now lives in northeastern Thailand, just near the Cambodian border. He plants rice in May each year, and harvests by hand in late November. He writes, gardens, grows orchids, and cooks, and he's learned to love the taste of red ant eggs, crickets, grasshoppers, and leguminous tree leaves. Nowadays, Jeffrey seldom photographs a person he doesn't know.Naomi Duguid is the author, along with Jeffrey Alford, of six award-winning books on food and travel: Flatbreads & Flavors, HomeBaking, Seductions of Rice, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Mangoes and Curry Leaves, and Beyond the Great Wall. In stories, recipes, and photographs, the books explore daily home-cooked foods in their cultural context. Her newest book, Pinch of Turmeric, Squeeze of Lime, is a collection of recipes and travel tales from Burma. 

Naomi Duguid, traveler, writer, photographer, is often described as a culinary anthropologist. She is a contributing editor of Saveur  

Table of Contents

The River, the People, the Food (7)

Dishes for Every Occasion (19)

Sauces, Chile Pastes, and Salsas (23)

Simple Soups (47)

Salads (64)

Rice and Rice Dishes (87)

Noodles and Noodle Dishes (113)

Mostly Vegetables (146)

Fish and Seafood (171)

Poultry (192)

Beef (215)

Pork (234)

Snacks and Street Food (261)

Sweets and Drinks (289)

Glossary of Flavorings (308)

Glossary of Ingredients (313)

Mail-Order Sources (325)


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ISBN:
9781579651145
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
10/07/2000
Publisher:
WORKMAN PUBLISHING CO INC
Pages:
352
Height:
1.29IN
Width:
11.43IN
Thickness:
1.25
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2000
Series Volume:
034
Author:
Jeffrey Alford
Author:
Naomi Duguid
Author:
Naomi Duguid
Author:
Jeffrey Alford
Subject:
theast
Subject:
Mekong River Region
Subject:
Cookery, southeast asian
Subject:
History
Subject:
TRAVEL / Asia / Southeast
Subject:
Cooking, Southeast Asian
Subject:
Cooking and Food-Asian
Subject:
COOKING / History
Subject:
TRAVEL / Asia / Sou

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