Joy of Thai Cooking

By Ravadi Lekprichakul Quinn

A guide to Thai Ingredients and Utensils Resources and Substitutions Step by step easy to comprehend recipes to authentic Thai food dishes Color pictures This beautifully illustrated cookbook is an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962878308
• ISBN13: 9780962878305
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Emerald of Siam
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Authentic and Easy Thai Cooking

I had a difficult time trying to find a cookbook that contained simple, everyday Thai food that I grew up with. My mother bought this for me when she went back to Thailand for a visit. The recipes are very easy and delicious. My mother approves!

My de-facto Thai cookbook

With all the Thai cookbooks that have appeared on the market lately, it's a shame that this one isn't more widely available in the United States, because it really is one of the best. I bought it secondhand on the strength of the other reviews here, and I haven't been disappointed. There's a number of other excellent recipe books of Thai cuisine, like Nancie McDermott's Real Thai/Real Vegetarian Thai, but most of them seem geared toward making the type of meal that takes fifteen ingredients and half an afternoon to prepare everything from scratch. That's fine and good, but most of the time I don't have the energy or time for that kind of cooking. So probably 75% of the time when I want to make a Thai meal, I pick up the Joy of Thai Cooking. I've probably tried two-thirds of the recipes in the book, and I have yet to find a stinker, or something that I wouldn't make again...and the majority of them are simple enough that I can make them at the end of a long day without much stress. Almost all the recipes are straightforward enough that I can find the ingredients either at the local grocery store or with a quick trip to any Asian grocery store, but they taste just fantastic. I really can't find anything bad to say about this recipe book, except that I wish it was even longer! If you're considering buying the Joy of Thai Cooking, you won't regret picking this one up.

The word authentic is overused but...

The word authentic is overused but really applies to the recipes in this book. I bought my copy in the Royal Palace in Bangkok. It was the last day of my week-long visit to my mother who is a Peace Corps Volunteer in the high plains east of Bangkok. Most of the recipes included taste remarkably similar to those I enjoyed at the homes of my mother's native friends.Why then, you may ask, did I give it only 4 stars? Although the "Guide to Thai ingredients and utensils" is very good I thought it could be a little more thorough. Also, a few I the recipes, I thought, could use a little more explanation in the methods section or in the ingredients.

Great Thai Food!

This is the first Thai cookbook I've come upon that has easy instructions and simple food preparation methods...I usually have to run around the kitchen to do about 3 million things to get the food ready on time, and with this cookbook, I only took about a half hour to make a dinner. I recommend the paht thai! ;) Enjoy