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Title: Good book for what it is.
Review: I really like this cookbook, which is full of simple recipes that are illustrated very well, broken down very well, and end up tasting good.It's not perfect. To me it doesn't come off as totally authentic, some recipes in particular come off as a Thai-ish version of Chinese favorites (I'm looking at you, fish-fragrant eggplant, although to be fair it's a great dish). Sometimes I find it a little bland, which is easy to adjust once you have a hang of the recipe. But it still calls for gulangal, fish sauce, palm sugar, etc., which puts it above a lot of other Thai cook books.Anyway I learned a variety of easy dishes that I really enjoyed, and learned to appreciate something of the subtleties of cooking Thai from this book. I'm making my way through it and plan to eventually graduate on to another cookbook which is more involved & more authentic.
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