The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook: 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight's Dinner
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“Speaks passionately to a new audience of Asian food enthusiasts.” –Andrea Nguyen, author of Into the Vietnamese Kitchen and Asian Dumplings“Steamy Kitchen is one of the most popular sites at www.food.alltop.com. This book is positively orgasmic.” –Guy Kawasaki, founder of Alltop.com; author of Rules for Revolutionaries and Reality Check In this debut cookbook, author and superstar food blogger Jaden Hair (of SteamyKitchen.com fame) shows you how to take simple ingredients and make inspired Asian meals that are fast, fresh, healthy and easy. From her mouth-watering Korean Bulgogi Burgers to her delicious Beef Satay and unbelievably easy Chinese Sausage Fried Rice and Shrimp Pad Thai, Jaden reveals all of her family of secrets in this book—for example, her Mom’s Famous Crispy Eggrolls and her Chinese Beef Broccoli and Chocolate Wontons that her two young sons cannot get enough of . All of her recipes contain clear step-by-step instructions and photos showing you how to cook them in less time than it takes to drive to the nearest takeout. And with her irresistible sense of humor and style, Jaden will have you running to the kitchen to start cookin’ tonight’s dinner right away! Library Journal Hair (www.SteamyKitchen.com) is a home cook-turned-food blogger-turned-cookbook author. She shares recipes drawn from her mother's kitchen, other food bloggers, and her own delightful archives. Her focus is mostly simple Asian dishes (from China, Vietnam, Japan, and Thailand), with several more complicated ones thrown into the mix. She veers from the current trend of Asian fusion cuisine by trying to uphold the integrity of each country's unique flavors and ingredients. This focus is what makes her book distinctive. Hair also provides great kid-friendly dishes like eggrolls, Chinese broccoli and beef, and crispy chicken with citrus teriyaki sauce. Desserts are appealing and include the much loved bubble tea and an innovative grilled banana-and-chocolate treat. VERDICT For home cooks of all levels of experience seeking to expand their repertoire of Asian recipes, Hair has written an extremely accessible cookbook that blends great recipes with mouthwatering photographs she took. Highly recommended. [See Publishers Weekly's online profile "The Cooking Star You Haven't Heard of Yet: Jaden Hair" at http://bit.ly/6jsBA.—Ed.]—Claire Moitra, Providence, RI
