Hot Sour Salty Sweet - by Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid (Hardcover)

About the Book

Award-winning cookbook authors Jeffery Alford and Naomi Duguid set out to eat their way through Southeast Asia's towns and villages, collecting more than 175 recipes, cooking techniques, stories and photos along the way. Color photos.

Book Synopsis

From award-winning authors Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, this book is a glorious combination of travel and taste, presenting enticing recipes in "an odyssey rich in travel anecdote" (National Geographic Traveler).

Hot Sour Salty Sweet's more than 175 recipes are accompanied by evocative stories about places and people. The recipes and stories are gorgeously illustrated throughout with more than 150 full-color food and travel photographs.

The book invites a flexible approach to cooking and eating, for dishes from different places can be happily served and eaten together--for example:
- Thai Grilled Chicken with Hot and Sweet Dipping Sauce
- Vietnamese Green Papaya Salad and Lao Sticky Rice
- Ginger Chicken Noodle Soup
- Jungle Curry
And so much more!

In Southeast Asia, people eat for joy. Their palate is wildly eclectic and proudly unrestrained. In Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet, this great culinary region is celebrated with all the passion, color, and life that it deserves.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR JEFFREY ALFORD AND NAOMI DUGUID'S AWARD-WINNING BOOKS:

Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas and Seductions of Rice

"Their latest book is simply stunning."--The New York Times

"A touching and vivid account" --Food & Wine

"A huge concept and Alford/Duguid are well suited to the task." --The Globe and Mail

"If you by one cookbook this year, make it this one." --USA Today

"A certifiable publishing event . . . a breakthrough . . ." --Vogue

About the Author

Jeffrey Alford is a writer and photographer based primarily in northeast Thailand and Cambodia. He plants and harvests rice each year; helps raise frogs and several varieties of fish; and happily struggles along in three languages: Central Thai, Lao Isaan, and Northern Khmer. His forthcoming book, to be published in 2014, is tentatively titled How Pea Cooks: Food and Life in a Thai-Khmer Village. His earlier books, all co-written with Naomi Duguid, are Flatbreads and Flavors;HomeBaking; Seductions of Rice; Hot Sour Salty Sweet; Mangoes and Curry Leaves; and Beyond the Great Wall. Jeffrey is currently developing a series of intensive culinary tours through northeastern Thailand and western Cambodia (the Angkor Wat area) under the name of Heritage Food Thailand.

Naomi Duguid is a writer, photographer, traveler, and home cook. Her recent cookbook Taste of Persia is the winner of a James Beard Award, an IACP Cookbook Award, and a Taste Canada Award. Her book Burma: Rivers of Flavor is also an IACP Cookbook Award and Taste Canada Award winner. Her six previous award-winning titles, co-authored with Jeffrey Alford, include two now-classic cookbooks that won the James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year: Flatbreads & Flavors: A Baker's Atlas and Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia. Naomi leads small-group food-immersive trips to the Republic of Georgia and elsewhere. She is a Trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and is a frequent guest speaker and presenter at food conferences, particularly those focused on grains. She lives in Toronto. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @naomiduguid.