Fans of Vietnamese cooking will find a wealth of wonderful recipes to choose from Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors. The book is written, with an obvious amount of enthusiasm and knowledge of the topic, by Andrea Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam and opens the book with a touching story of leaving Saigon with little but family, memories and recipes. Many of those recipes are included in the book or were the inspiration for dishes. Along with the recipes, Nguyen includes some background on Vietnamese culture, particularly as it pertains to food, eating and cooking.
There are more than 175 recipes in the book, as well as a number of tempting photographs of the dishes. All are easy to follow and, with the exception of a few long ingredient lists, they are not very intimidating anyway. The book is divided into chapters by categories, such as meats, vegetables, noodles, soups, sauces and sweets, along with several others. Pho and bánh mì recipes are included as some of the more familiar Vietnamese dishes, while others range from Garlicky oven-roasted chicken (which seems to know few cultural bounds) to the more exotic Chicken Dumpling and Chrysanthemum Leaf Soup, Beef Flank and Ginger Simmered in Caramel Sauce.
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