Lucky Peach Presents 101 Easy Asian Recipes
The First Cookbook from the Cult Food Magazine
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
“Delicious, straightforward recipes ... fill Lucky Peach: 101 Easy Asian Recipes, along with romping commentary that makes the book fun to read as well as to cook from.” —Associated Press
Beholden to bold flavors and not strict authenticity, the editors of Lucky Peach present a compendium of 101 easy, Asian recipes that hit the sweet spot between craveworthy and stupid simple and are destined to become favorites. Your friends and lovers will marvel as you show off your culinary worldliness, whipping up meals with fish-sauce-splattered panache and all the soy-soaked, ginger-scalliony goodness you could ever want—all for dinner tonight. You'll never have a reason to order take-out again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cofounder/editor Meehan (Momofuku) and his cohorts at Lucky Peach, an award-winning quarterly culinary journal with a rabid following, show novices what all the fuss is about with this entertaining and useful collection of Asian-inspired dishes. Guided by two rules no frying and no subrecipes the team produces a terrific store of dishes. Some suggestions, such as serving oranges for dessert and roasted sweet potatoes as a side, take simplicity literally there are no other ingredients but the rest of the dishes, such as kimchi pancakes and lacquered roast chicken, are criminally easy to prepare. The bulk of the book's recipes are staples such as a soy sauce kimchi that doesn't require weeks of fermentation, hot and sour soup, and pad see ew, but there are surprising, tasty riffs as well: Sichuan pork and spicy mushroom ragus for noodles, and Mall Chicken, a wildly inauthentic but highly addictive version of the ubiquitous sticky-sweet chicken nuggets served with toothpicks in food courts throughout America. Readers will also appreciate the surprising lack of prep for many dishes; few require chopping and dicing multitudes of vegetables or sourcing ingredients that are difficult to find in the U.S. This is an outstanding, practical guide sure to inspire even the most discouraged home cook.
