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Title:How to Make them Goodies
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Moderator:FUTURE::DDESMAISONSec.com::winalski
Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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2202.0. "BOOK: Thai Cookbook" by BARTLE::HOWE () Mon Jan 15 1990 15:28

    I really enjoy Thai cooking. I have a found recipes in this
    file but I am looking for a cookbook. Can anybody recommend
    one to me?
    
    Thanks
    Ann
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2202.1SAC::PHILPOTT_ICol I F 'Tsingtao Dhum' PhilpottFri Jan 19 1990 04:5616
Ann,

I have a couple (the Madhur Jaffrey book I've quoted here is good, but I have
another that is exclusively Thai). There is also one in a series published by
an Australian Women's Magazine that gives everything (instructions, dish
names, ingredient names etc) in English, but since I buy my/our ingredients
in a Thai grocers that isn't very helpful so I didn't buy that one.

However I'm in Britain and you, I think, are Stateside. It is possible therefore
that you'd have to find a good bookstore that could (possibly) import them.

If you're interested I'll post the titles, authors and ISBNs of the books so
you can try and track them down.

/. Ian .\
2202.2Thai CookbooksPCOJCT::HUNZEKERFri Feb 16 1990 09:4716
    Here's three:
    
    This one's all Thai:
    
    Crawford, William and Kamolmal Pootaraksa, *Thai Home-Cooking From 
    	Kamolmal's Kitchen*, New York: North American, 1985.  Paperback
    	list price is $8.95.
    
    These two contain quite a few good Thai recipes:
    
    Brissenden, Rosemary, *Joys and Subtleties: South East Asian Cooking*,
    	New York: Pantheon (Div of Random House), 1970.  
    
    Ng, Dorothy, *Favourite Asian Meals*, Singapore: Times Books, 1953.
    
    
2202.3Another Thai BookCSOA1::SCHWARTZ_FNorth Coast, U.S.A.Sat Feb 17 1990 07:569
  I've used the following cookbook with good results:

   "Pojanee Vatanapan's Thai Cookbook with Linda Alexander",

  copyright 1986, published by Harmony Books, a division of
  Crown Publishers, Inc. NY, NY

  I believe that I found it on the shelf in a bookstore devoted to
  cookbooks.
2202.4CERRIN::PHILPOTTCol I F 'Tsingtao Dhum' PhilpottTue Sep 17 1991 05:5914
I have been asked for a few "fish" recipes, so I'll include them as replies 
to this.

These recipes are taken from "Thai Cooking Class" by Somi Anuntra Miller &
Patricia Lake, Published by Bay Books in the "Better Living" series
ISBN is 1-86256-073-0

These recipes are Australian, so 1 cup = 250ml and 1 tablespoon = 20ml.

I find these recipes well written, but they are perhaps a little underspiced
for those used to full-blown Thai cooking. Feel free to increase (or decrease)
spice to taste.

/. Ian .\
2202.5GRASS SOUP - NEED HELPDPDMAI::HALLFri Oct 29 1993 17:434
    I AM LOOKING FOR A RECIPE THAT IS CALLED SOMETHING LIKE A GRASS SOUP. 
    IT IS LIKE A CHICKEN BROTH BASE WITH MUCHROOMS AND SOME SORT OF LEMON
    GRASS ADDED.  I TRIED THIS AT A THAI RESTAURANT IN FORT WORTH TX AND
    JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH IT.  ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
2202.6GEMGRP::PW::WinalskiCareful with that AXP, Eugene!Fri Oct 29 1993 19:365
There are a bazillion Thai recipes posted here, including, I think, the one 
you're looking for, which if I'm not mistaken is called Tom Ka Kai.  Take a 
look in the conference directory posted in the early notes.

--PSW