Northern Thai & Isaan Cookbook POK POK Andy Ricker Signed

by J. J. Goode, Andy Ricker

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POK POK, a regional Thai cookbook centered on the food traditions, street cooking, and roadside restaurant culture of northern Thailand and its Isaan region. Developed from Andy Ricker’s Pok Pok restaurants and his long engagement with Thai cooking and travel, the book combines recipes, regional discussion, ingredient guidance, and food writing with extensive photography throughout. Rather than presenting generalized restaurant-style Thai food, the emphasis is placed on regional dishes, traditional techniques, pantry ingredients, and distinctive flavor profiles associated with northern Thai and Lao-influenced Isaan cooking. Recipes and discussions include dishes such as Som Tam Lao, Laap Pet Isaan, Khao Man Som Tam, sticky rice preparations, grilled meats, curry pastes, chile dips, noodle dishes, and sweets including sticky rice with mango. Sections devoted to ingredients, sourcing, mortar-and-pestle technique, pantry staples, condiments, and regional cooking traditions give the volume a broad documentary and instructional scope. The book appeared during the 2010s, a period of growing American interest in regional Thai cooking and ingredient-driven Southeast Asian food writing. David Thompson contributes the foreword, while the photography by Austin Bush emphasizes markets, roadside restaurants, vernacular interiors, and utilitarian food settings alongside finished dishes. Large-format hardcover with extensive color photography throughout. Signed by Andy Ricker on a Ten Speed

• Publisher: Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
• Year: 2013
• ISBN: 9781607742883
• Condition: Very Good

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