The Complete Asian Cookbook (New Edition) - Hardcover

Charmaine Solomon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1743791968 ISBN 13: 9781743791967

Publisher: Quadrille Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

This is a thoroughly updated edition of Charmaine Solomon&apo;ss influential and iconic The Complete Asian Cookbook. Instantly heralded as a classic when it was first published in 1976, it covers 800 classic and contemporary dishes from fifteen countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, The Philippines, China, Korea and Japan).

Written with the home cook in mind, Charmaine's recipes are straightforward, simple-to-follow and work every time. Recipe and chapter introductions give valuable information about how local dishes are prepared and served, while the comprehensive glossary explains unfamiliar ingredients (which are steadily more commonplace in supermarkets today).

The Complete Asian Cookbook is a classic that belongs in the kitchen of every household.

About this title

Review:

"I cherish and refer to often because it is so thorough going and authoritative in its subject matter, and the recipes are uncommonly well written and authentic." --"Craig Claiborne, the New York Times"

About the Author:

Charmaine Solomon comes from a family of exceptionally good cooks. She started her career in food as a reporter and feature writer for an English language newspaper in Sri Lanka, where she ran a cooking column dispensing recipes and food ideas with flair.

In putting together this book, Charmaine travelled widely through Asia, revisiting familiar places and discovering new ones to ensure that, as always, her recipe development was backed up with on-the-spot authenticity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quadrille Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1743791968
• ISBN 13: 9781743791967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 648