Recipes from Hot Sour Salty Sweet

Hot Sour Salty Sweet

This book is a glorious combination of travel and taste, presenting enticing recipes in “an odyssey rich in travel anecdote” (National Geographic Traveler). The book’s more than 175 recipes for spicy salsas, welcoming soups, grilled meat salads, and exotic desserts are accompanied by evocative stories about places and people. The recipes and stories are gorgeously illustrated throughout with more than 150 full-color food and travel photographs.

Grilled Chicken with Peppercorn Cilantro Root Paste

In Thai cooking, cilantro root is used to liven up dishes with a peppery and aromatic flavor. If you think it sounds good, just wait until you taste it slathered all over grilled chicken.

45 mins

Vietnamese Iced Coffee ~ Ca Phe Sua Da

A simple, satiating, summery Vietnamese tradition known as ca phe sua da, this seductive classic is simply coffee, ice, and sweet, sweet, sweetened condensed milk. Here's how to succumb at home.

15 mins

Authentic Pad Thai

Unspeakably more nuanced than takeout Thai, these stir-fried noodles boast a sigh-inducing balance of salty, sour, and sweet. In other words, it's the real deal.

1 hr

Peppercorn-Cilantro Root Paste

A classic Thai trick for imparting a lot of oomph without a lot of ingredients or expense.

15 mins