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Summary: A little complicated...
Comment: This book offers some tasty recipes and sauces, but a lot of the recipes are a little complicated. They have too many ingredients and are time consuming. I only use the recipes for the sauces (the sweet chili sauce is especially tasty and great for dipping veggies or spring rolls).
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Summary: The basics of writing a book...
Comment: ...knowing the definition of a word you use in your title would be a start! The author of this book states at the beginning that some Thai people choose to eat fish because the fish are "stupid enough to swim into a net and get caught." This is completely offensive to any true vegetarian who orders a cookbook that is supposed to be based on a peaceful diet. If a human is murderous and violent enough to set a trap in the first place, yeah, they might kill a fish, but who is the "stupid" one here? I can't help but feel the need to rebut such a ridiculous statement. Should a fish not swim in its natural habitat? Should all creatures surrender their homes to the human animals? Pretty soon bats will be peeking around corners, wondering if it's safe to even fly; there might be nets, after all...
Excuse my disgust, but I sure hope this is the last supposedly-vegetarian-yet-includes-sealife cookbook I ever buy.
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Summary: good eats
Comment: I'm a huge fan of thai food and was skeptical that I could go vegetarian and still cook thai but this cookbook has great recipes! It has a number of really tasty curries like the root vegetable curry, the jungle curry and others. And the flavors are full and alive. I'm really happy with tyhe recipes I've tried so far and plan to keep on cookin'. Very happy I bought the book.
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Summary: Great Veggie Thai!
Comment: I just wanted to say to anyone who thinks this was not meant for veggies, should have read the intro. The Author explains how to substitute, say fish sauce, with light soy or other kinds of combinations to achieve the same flavors. The Pad thai is wonderful as well as the stir-fry's and soups. I recommend you at least try it on for size
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Summary: Very similiar to a vegetarian cookbook...
Comment: This book has a lot of good recipes. Unfortunately, I am not convinced the recipes were designed for vegetarians. Many of the recipes have ingredient lists like "Fish sauce (or light soy sauce)". Apart from that, book has lots of pretty pictures, is well organized and has most of the Thai food that vegetarians would order in a restaurant (curries, pad thai, pineapple fried rice). No Drunken Noodle though!
