No comments about Chinese, Indian and Thai Cuisine Passport (Lets Eat Out! Your Passport to Living Gluten and Allergy Free).

1 comments about Vietnamese Cookery.

1. The book is really nice- If you are interesting in collecting Vietnamese cook book, this is a nice item.
   
   The book arrived very fast and in great condition.

3 comments about Cooking the Vietnamese Way: Revised and Expanded to Include New Low-Fat and Vegetarian Recipes (Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks).

1. Just right after receiving the book, I took a look and was very disappointed immediately: "Is this all ?"The book is thin and carry almost of half for unnessary general introduction. There are not much especial and interesting recipes which you can find from the other practical and attentive book .
   Perhaps because of the price so is that all we can get for what we pay?
   For really really really beginner that may work.



2. This was definately sparse on the recipes. It is very basic (and I was a bit surprised to see that in the publication info at the front of the book, it's also listed under "juvenile literature"). There is good info on Vietnam, it's customs, people, etc., but a full half of the book concentrated on that and a few silly things like describing the term "boil". Definately not enough recipes. A grand total of 24 recipes, including how to cook rice and recipes for simple sauces. I'm disappointed with this (and the book "Cooking the Thai Way" which I ordered with it) but hate to return things so I'll just have to make the dozen or so recipes that interest me. Then get a nice, comprehensive Vietnamese cookbook where I can preview it before buying! This was my first online book purchase...



3. This book is very disappointing! Very few recipes and a lot of pages wasted on things such as warning the reader to be careful while cooking. Is it really necessary to include a recipe on how to make steamed rice? This book also claimed to include vegetarian recipes, but very few were provided. Some of recipes look promissing, but really not worth buying because there are too few recipes and too many page fillers.

No comments about exciting flavours of Asian Cooking.

No comments about Vietnamese Cookery Book.

No comments about Vietnamese Foods & Culture (Festive Foods and Celebrations).

2 comments about Living and Cooking Vietnamese: An American Womans Experience.

1. I really enjoyed this cookbook. The recipes taste very authentic and are easy enough to prepare for the home cook. Have you ever sat down with a friend in her kitchen and copied down a family recipe off of a well worn index card or watched as a relative chopped and stirred while you made a mental note of the ingredients and preparation method so you could repeat it and pass down the recipe to your family? The recipes in this cookbook are those kinds of recipes - I really feel like I got a chance to peek into (and copy) Mrs. Tran's personal recipe box. If you enjoy "community cookbook" style recipes - ones that are actually used in homes as opposed to restaurants, then you will probably also enjoy this cookbook. There are no pictures, but I do not think that is a drawback. The recipes are homey, delicious, and less daunting than those often found in a more typical cookbook.



2. A friend borrowed this book to me and I read it while traveling to my sister-in-law's wedding. I am an American woman married to a Vietnamese-born man and found the recipes to be helpful, but secondary to the wonderful stories and descriptions of her experience of this rich culture. I couldn't believe the similarities as I lived through the wedding experience and she described it there on paper! (My wedding was very American with little of the cultural pieces. My sister in law's wedding was all Vietnamese.) This was a great find!

No comments about Potluck on the Pedernales: Down Home Cooking from Deep in the Heart of Lbj Country.

No comments about Cooks and Bakers.

1 comments about Aww Easy Vietnamese Style Cookery ("Australian Women's Weekly" Home Library).

1. I bought this book when my husband was working in Vietnam and said how good the food was there. So imagine how impressed I was when his response to the first thing I cooked was "tastes just like up there". That was chilli beef and noodles, and has become a staple meal in our family, along with the mild beef curry and the chicken with green beans and noodles. While the recipes sometimes seem to call for a lot of ingredients, once you have bought the basics (and some you may already have, like soy sauce and fish sauce) you probably won't have to make many one off visits to the shops for emergency supplies. The recipes make very generous serves, especially anything with rice and noodles. And I am finding that now that I live in Burma, the recipes are particularly useful for the sort of vegetables I can get cheaply and easily here as well.