200 Thai favourites [antikvár]

'oductioMy purpose in writing this book is to show you, in as compact a form as possible, how to prepare a wide selection of popular Thai dishes, adding to each recipe at least one variation using slightly different ingredients. Because the book is so condensed, I have described in the introduction some of the ingredients you may not be familiar with, as well as some basic procedures and recipes.Whenever I go back to Thailand, I'm always impressed by the high standard of cooking, not only in restaurants but also from the stalls in the many street markets you find all over Bangkok and other cities (and even along the major trunk roads). So-called 'street food' desen/es a better name, because it bears little resemblance to its equivalent in the West. Wealthy people send out their maids to buy cooked food from the local market, knowing that it will have been prepared by someone who specializes in that particular dish, oftenbringing it to perfection. Thai people are justly proud of their cuisine and I am very happy to explain some of its secrets.developing tasteI gained my knowledge of Thai cooking partly from my family, partly from helping people who are masters of their art, and partly from my own experiments. All of this practical activity has been valuable, yet probably the most important part has been the entirely passive role of eating Thai food and developing good judgement about it. Maybe, too, there's a Buddhist element to this process - coming from the monks who tell us to concentrate while we eat, to think about what we are doing, instead of munching away while talking about something else. Thai people rarely eat in silence, but the conversation nearly always turns to the food in front of us. We discuss it avidly. 'Lovely, but a bit too salty ', 'Almost perfect, but maybe a bit more tamarind ', and so on. If you eat enough Thai food, especially with Thai friends, you'll soon develop your palate.from the beginningIf you're a complete beginner who has never cooked - or even tasted - Thai food, don't worry. This book describes the preparation and cooking step by step, using precise