Bangkok: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Thailand

From one of the most regarded experts on Thai cooking comes this wonderful and profoundly close to home tribute to Bangkok, the highest level travel objective on the planet.

Consistently, in excess of 16 million guests run to Thailand's capital city, and leave mesmerized by the lively culture and extraordinary food they experience en route. Thai cooking is more famous today than any other time in recent memory, yet there is no book that narratives the genuine food that Thai individuals eat each day—up to this point.

In Bangkok, grant winning creator Leela Punyaratabandhu offers 120 plans that catch the genuine soul of the city—from legacy family dishes to café works of art to ordinary road eats to present day cosmopolitan toll. Delightful food and area photography will make this an absolute necessity have memento for any peruser who has fallen completely devoted to Bangkok

About the Author

Leela Punyaratabandhu is the author of the award-winning cooking blog She Simmers and the book Simple Thai Food. Her writing has appeared on CNN Travel and the food website Serious Eats. Dividing her time between Chicago and Bangkok, Punyaratabandhu writes about Thai food and Thai restaurants both in the United States and Thailand.

I had always thought Leela Punyaratabandhu is a talented and extremely smart writer, and yet this book has managed to show me I've underestimated how much her work contributes to the body of literature on Thai cuisine. The writing is beautiful, fascinating, informative, intelligent and funny all at once. The photographs are gorgeous. The recipes are very authentic and unusual. You feel like you're traveling and eating through the city of Bangkok with the best tour guide who can cook. I own almost every book on Thai cooking and I can say unequivocally that this beautiful volume is the best one to date. The only caveat is that the recipes are very authentic to the point that they may be too authentic for people with casual interest in Thai food. I was looking at the recipes and feeling somewhat fearful for the author. If you're the type that doesn't like to look for specific ingredients online or go out of your cooking comfort zone, this book is too advanced for you. --Christine C.

Ms. Punyaratabandhu writes in a delightful breezy, personal and very informative manner. Her research into the traditional and family dining recipes is impressive. I read cookbooks like novels, and Southeast Asian food is my favorite. I have a large bookcase of Asian cookbooks and am delighted to have this book join my favors. This book has many recipes that I'm eager to try. A. Lot of them I've never seen before, and there as are some familiar ones that are refined by the author and/ or changed to reflect a more traditional take on the food. A few of the recipes look a bit challenging, and the author acknowledges that they may be, and then she goes on, in explicit detail, on exactly how one can deal with the complexity. It makes all the recipes more approachable and doable. Great Book! --Kroaleen

This is my favorite kind of cookbook. Beautiful to look at, it's the kind of book you can read for pleasure, to learn about another place and another kind of life, and get a sense of what it is to be Thai, through beautiful descriptions and photographs, as well as recipes you can taste as you read them. The recipes do require some [slightly] challenging ingredients, but you can get them at any Asian grocery store, or on line here at Amazon. The cooking techniques are not difficult, and the end product looks wonderful. If you are interested in cooking delicious Thai food, these recipes are absolutely accessible. If you want to learn something of what it is to live in Thailand, the writing is beautiful and vivid. --Carol Mathis