Book Description
The simplicity and ingenuity of Thai cooking is brought to life in this inspirational cookbook. The exciting recipes from the East featured in this volume will be sure to spice up any meal. What's Cooking: Thai features chapters on snacks, starters and soups, meat and fish main dishes, rice and noodles, and desserts and drinks. All of the recipes are easy-to-follow and feature clear step-by-step instructions for creating a collection of mouth-watering meals.
Customer Reviews:
Dumbed Down Thai, or Vaguely Thai-Influenced Dishes.......2004-09-05
Christine France's What's Cooking Thai might better be termed "Dumbed Down Thai", "Asian-like Dishes for Dummies", or "Vaguely Thai-Influenced and Intermittent Thai Dishes". This is a cookbook shamelessly cashing in on one's desires for authentic Thai cuisine. I've traveled to Thailand to firsthand experience the cuisine, eat regularly at Thai restaurants, and have made quite a few recipes from various Thai cookbooks, with fresh galangal, fresh cilantro (coriander) and lemongrass from the side of my semitropical home....
The recipes appear to have been thrown together without careful proofreading, or certainly trying them...last night I made "Roast Chicken with Ginger and Lime", and had to laugh when the recipe called one to "place the chicken halves on a tray over a roasting pan half filled with boiling water"...roast in a 350 degree oven for ~1 hour...When the chicken is cooked, boil the water from the roasting pan to reduce it to about a scant cup. Blend the cornstarch with the water and stir into the reduced liquid. Heat gently until boiling, then stir until slightly thickened and clear. Serve the chicken with the sauce...Huh??
Come on, Christine, " reduce" a roasting pan half filled with boiling water down to a "scant cup"? Uh-huh, sure! Why not make a rich water reduction from 2 gallons down to a "full cup" for more of that rich "water reduction" taste?!
Is there no better crafted sauce to put over the chicken than Christine's bland cornstarch and "reduced water"...for shame! I hope others do not buy your book on "Sauces"...I've seen enough! Now in fairness, it can be a tasty chicken given it's ingredients, however to compensate for the addled instructions, I added all of the chicken drippings, with some fat, yielding perhaps one truly "scant" ounce and some cornstarch and water, to create a more tasty sauce! So, this book is geared for beginning cooks, who may not be able to rescue a sloppily written recipe with it's bland sauce, and improve it on the fly.
This book's drawbacks additionally include it's complete lack of corresponding Thai names for the recipes..it would have been nice (or perhaps rather embarrassing for Christine) to match a recipe with a familiar name at a Thai restaurant to see how close the ah, abbreviated "inspired" recipe comes to it's authentic cousin, (at least twice removed).
It lacks in it's forward any helpful hints on how to best obtain, approach and prepare the unique items of the Thai kitchen that appear in better books. It could give more hints than are in the recipes. I do give it credit for asking one to use mortar and pestle rather than food processor for preparation.
The book's has abbreviated recipes, suitable for a "Somewhat Thai-influenced Cookbook", however there are better, and easy books available, for cooks who do not have a good basis of Thai dishes.
Such recipes as "Baked Cod with a Curry Crust" are of questionable Thai origin.
Her "Pad Thai Noodles" with tomato ketchup, (Yes!) whose photo certainly looks unlike the sum of the ingredients, with apparently green onion sections/Chinese chives (doubt lemongrass) tossed in by a food stylist, who never read the ingredients!
Want to make the great standard, Tom Kha Kai soup (chicken with coconut milk)? Sorry, not even an imitation recipe or authentic one in this meager book.
Settle for Christine's "Thai" Creamy Corn soup with Egg, Mushroom and Tofu Broth, or Spinach and Ginger Soup, Chili Spiced Shrimp wonton Soup, or Chilled Avocado, lime and Cilantro Soup...which are combinations clearly more Chinese or Latin than Thai! Perhaps these recipes are inspired by Christine's visit to a Mexico City "Hilton" or other restaurant catering to American or British style cuisine!
Want an "Indian/Middle East- inspired" rather than true Thai dessert, try Christine's Rosewater Ice! Want "Asian-influenced"? Go for Christine's Caramel Apple Wedges with (token) Sesame seeds! There's "Balinese Banana Pancakes", to fluff up this crazy quilt of a recipe book, looking pretty similar to a dish one can have at an IHOP (Innternational House of Pancakes) or Stir Fried Pork and Corn..."typical of Thai street food"...hmmm missed that street stand in Thailand!
Truly Authentic Thai, NOT found here!
For Authentic Thai recipes, read the large and beautiful Thailand The Beautiful Cookbook, by Panurat Poladitmontr; David Thompson's scholarly tome, Thai Food; Nancie McDermott's Real Thai; Cracking the Coconut by Su-Mei Yu; It Rains Fishes by Kasma Loha-Unchit, to name just a few far more authentic Thai cookbooks. Charmaine Solomon's Complete Asian cookbook has more authentic and tastier Asian recipes.
Christine is said on the flyleaf to have written/co-written over 20 books...if they are also possessing this questionable authenticity and so-so quality, worst case scenario, that might leave 19 other books for you to pass by, as well! I hope this is just one of her lesser quality books, and look forward to reading some others with better authenticity from so prolific a cookbook author.
Every Recipe Is a Winner.......2001-09-11
I bought this cookbook this summer, more to add to my collection than to actually learn Thai cooking. But then I tried a few recipes, and I've been hooked on the cookbook ever since...
Having grown up in an Asian household, I'm already familiar with a lot of the ingredients and techniques used in Asian cooking, but I love the fact that this cookbook explains ingredients and technique without being condescending to those who aren't familiar with Asian cookery much less with the kitchen.
I usually use post-it notes to mark the recipes in a new cookbook that I want to try. When I started marking pages in this cookbook, I realized that I wanted to try everything. While I haven't had a chance to sample it all just yet, I can tell you that everything I've tried has been perfect. Even my boyfriend, who is definitely a "meat and potatoes" man loves when I prepare something from this book. I've also found that, despite the simplicity of the recipes, my dinner guests always assume that I went to elaborate lengths to prepare these wonderful foods. My favorite is an exquisite cilantro coconut chicken dish that just knocks the socks off of anyone who tries it.
Great beginner's cookbook........2001-08-28
This is one of my first Asian cookbooks. It's a great cookbook for beginners. Not only the instructions are clear and easy to follow, all the ingrediants in this book are easy to found in most grocery stores. I have tried several receipts on the day of my party, my guests were surprised and enjoyed the food very much. I am highly recommand this book for anyone who enjoying asian cooking.
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This is the only book available, designed for collectors, about prehistoric Indian axes. The author of the popular four-volume Indian Artifacts of the Midwest series has brought back this title for a second edition, which includes almost 500 b/w photos and now includes an all-new colour section with almost 100 photos.
Customer Reviews:
Nice Type Reference .......2005-03-22
A very nice resource for type, style, and era. However, from an instructional or educational perspective it is essentially a picture book. It leaves me with plenty of questions regarding the entire subject area. But all in all it is still handy as a reference and was worth the price.
The premier reference for collectors.......2001-07-06
Now in a fully updated, expanded, and profusely illustrated second edition, Lar Hothem's Indian Axes & Related Stone Artifacts: Identification & Values continues to be the premier reference for collectors, dealers, archaeologists, and museum curators, as well as students of Native American culture and artifacts. Beginning with an informative chart (Prehistoric Periods in North America) and introduction, individual chapters are dedicated to: Axe Development in Prehistoric America; Materials Used For Axes; How Axes Were Made; The Full-Grove Axe; The Three-Quarter Groove Axe; The Half-Grove Axe; Fluted Axes; Barbed Axes; Trophy Axes; Salvaged Axes; Celts - Ungrooved Axes; Spatulas and Spuds; What Axes Were Used For; Axe Facts; The Adz; Archaic and Woodland Adzes; Chisels; Gouges; Other Prehistoric Tools; Hematite Artifacts; Copper Artifacts; Trade-Era Artifacts; Axe Value Factors; Fake Axes - The Problem; Axes As Art Objects; Acquisition Guidelines; Finding Axes - How, When, and Where; Axe Collecting - The Future; and Axes In The Past.
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- AN REAL AMERICAN IDOL
- music, sweet music
- YOU LEARN ABOUT ROY AND THE MUSIC BUSINESS
- Unknown guitar genius.
- We still can listen to his unforgettable music ...
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Roy Buchanan was a "guitarist's guitarist" who shunned fame for a musical odyssey on America's roadhouse circuit with his battered Telecaster - melding blues, country, jazz and rock like no player before or since. This is a compelling road trip through the gritty world of honky tonks and beer joints where this enigmatic journeyman preferred to play. Readers meet the biggest names in pop music and legions of unknowns along the way, from the dawn of rock 'n' roll to Buchanan's puzzling death in 1988. "We just sat there aghast ... It was some of the best playing I've ever heard ... He defied all the laws of verse-chorus-verse and just blazed." - Jeff Beck "Roy was one of the creators in the pioneering of unusual sounds. It seemed as though I was hearing them come first from Roy Buchanan." - Les Paul
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AN REAL AMERICAN IDOL.......2007-05-27
THIS BOOK IS FANTASTIC..ROY WAS FANTASTIC....IF YOU ARE A FAN, YOU NEED THIS BOOK..I WILL READ IT OVER AND OVER....
music, sweet music.......2007-04-02
During a recent health low, I was web searching for Phil Carson, someone I'd met at a GD show at Red Rocks in '84. At the time I was convinced he was an archangel of some sort. I guess it wasn't quite mutual. 'S'cool.... But I'm pretty sure this must be the same guy. From the samples on Amazon, this Phil Carson writes superbly. Whether he's my one-time flame or not, I commend him on his delightful writing. Really nice work. I sincerely hope he and his loved ones are well and happy. I am really looking forward to reading this book, and the one about Hispanics in Colorado, since I now teach that unit to my third grade students. (I would even be interested in translating it into Spanish, if it hasn't been done already...)
I had never heard of Roy Buchanan, so I am relishing discovering his music as well as reading the rest of Phil's book.
YOU LEARN ABOUT ROY AND THE MUSIC BUSINESS.......2007-02-11
I like Roy's first records--loud and clear, with the focus on his playing. Later on they tried to make him like Clapton, but it didn't work. I would rate Roy in the top 5 of the people I have heard. I also like Bugs Henderson, Tinsley Ellis, Wes Jeans, and Dave Hole. This book is a very good read. I saw Roy at Park West in Chicago. He did a very short set. It was hard to enjoy him with the female booze hustlers bothering me, but, he seem to be in top form. I still have my ticket, inside Roy's live Japan import.
Unknown guitar genius........2006-11-06
All I ever wanted to know,about the man and his music.Great biografy,have read many books on other artist.If you go through Buchanan`s songs,there are many differt styles he mastered.Country,rockabilly,rock & &roll,instrumentals,pop,r & b,jazz.Saw him live once in Oslo,that was great.My friends say,play the #Telecaster# and die young,but I have to play it,have -blonde 52 reissue.Now I study bossa nova masters,like Lois Bonfa,Joao Gliberto,Jobim etc.cause I got a job with a female singer,playing spanish guitar.There are a few cuts with Roy playing acoustic and they are great.Read the book,by his concert DVD,s,and if you run short,get bored playing the beast,listen to the man.There have never been a guitar player like him,he had his own style,his style will never be duplicated.All american music styles,and Malaguena.The roadhouse king will live on forever.Arnie Buy-ROY BUCHANAN his first and SECOND ALBUM on Polydor,that is a good start.Good reading,good listning and play them over and over,and you will hear his soul.
We still can listen to his unforgettable music ..........2005-09-08
1988 Roy Buchanan decided, to hang up himself with his own T-shirt in a police cell in Fairfax, Virginia, aged 49. In the year 1971 a TV documentation had been sent titled "The Best Unknown Guitarist In The World". Nothing had (and has) changed since then. Buchanan worked as a studio musician for Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins, Ricky Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Stefan Grossman, Tom Paxton. He even got offers by the Rolling Stones [to replace Brian Jones] or by John Lennon [to play his part in the Plastic Ono Band]. Buchanan played the electrical melody guitar like a devil, chased so many notes in second fractions through the amplifier, that one could not count or write down these notes any more. On the other hand he mastered the art, to slow down melody-lines so much at certain points, that one forgets the melody never more: alike Mark Knopfler or Santana, Eric Clapton or Mark perfectly are practicing this way. I will never forget his version of "After Hours". I recorded this pretty piece of music with my tape recorder [turned old now] from the radio in 1959. Roy Buchanan (1939-1988) learned to play the Hillbilly Steel Guitar at the age of nine years, experienced public worships of blacks and whites in the South of the USA. His father was a preacher in the "Pentecostal Church Of God" and he liked to say, that his mother sang better than Billie Holiday. So Blind Boy Fuller or Elvis Presley, Delta Blues or Rockabilly lay in his cradle. He played the guitar lick of "Susie Q" nearly every evening, tantalized by the wish, to arouse the attention of the young ladies. 1963 Roy Buchanan married his girl-friend Judy and lived in the area around Washington. He had to get through his little family occasionally by working as a hairdresser. After a Rolling Stone interview in 1971 finally he became more publicly known. He played in a sold out Carnegie Hall, his first LP appeared and that mentioned television program was broadcast with the title "The Best Unknown Guitarist In The World". He played together with other "claptonesque" guitarists, came into the charts in Great Britain with a CC-Rider version, appeared in Japan and Amsterdam - and then (just back in the USA) hung himself in that prison: The backside of his great musical brilliance was an emotional instability. Though his curriculum vitae ended so sadly, he indirectly remained unchanged for us with his most creative and joyful minutes of his life - because we still can listen to his unforgettable music ...
Book Description
Illustrated story of American axes that identifies the great variety of North American axes dating from the Colonial period to the present. Detailed drawings and diagrams.
Customer Reviews:
Good Overview for the Novice.......2001-03-06
If you are just starting to collect or are merely interested in the tools Americans used during the pioneer days, this book is a good start.
It explains the types of axes used and the various functions a particular axe performed. It also lists American axe and edge-tool makers of the 1800-1900's.
Simple to understand and enough information to give you a good foundation of knowledge, with a bibliography to help you further your research. Every library that has a good pioneer selection should include this book.
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A one-armed warrior wanders with his nephew.......2004-03-14
"The Song of the Axe" is book six (of seven) in Paul O. Williams' "The Pelbar Cycle."
Unlike the others in the series, in this volume Stel Westrun is not the main character, but merely a minor one, as this is the story of Tor, one of the last "Axemen" of the Shumai tribe, and his nephew Tristal. Although the position of axeman, leader of one of the hunting bands of the Shumai, is fading as the new peace of the Heart River Federation causes them to move away from hunting and gathering toward a more agricultural lifestyle, Tor hopes to teach Tristal the principles of leadership once essential to the title. In spite of having lost his hand in the opening of the Dome of the ancients (see "The Dome in the Forest," book three in the series), Tor is still a warrior, but he has become both more introspective and more aware of the bigger picture of the land that is once more being reunited after being shattered by the "Time of Fire" a thousand years before. He leads Tristal on a quest toward a seemingly trivial objective, to see the walls of ice to the northwest described by a group of wanderers they had met a few years earlier, but in the process he is hoping to pass on the ability to listen to the subtleties of life around him that makes an axeman a great leader, because he sees in Tristal the potential to bridge the gap between the old ways and the new.
Successfully making their way to the glaciers, and beyond them to the "Shining Sea of the West" (that Stel had set out to see but never reached in book two, "The Ends of the Circle"), Tor and Tristal sometimes find their master/student relationship more troublesome than the hostile peoples they encounter on the way. Indeed, it takes something unexpected in the usual "coming of age" quest before Tristal finds the Axeman in himself.
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"Spring - and Civilization - were bringing new life to the valley of the Heart River. But the Old Ways of Urstadge's nomads were dying.
So Tor, last of the great Shumai Axemen, took his nephew Tristal on a last run to teach the boy the Way of the Axeman.
But TristaI would have to survive deadly encounters, endure a seductive captivity, and even suffer enslavement before he learned that there was more to the Axeman's skill than just a sound arm and a handy opponent."
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In this elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration, the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the "war on terror" are exposed as the propaganda vehicles for the neo-colonialism of the West that they are. "Ali Hakim" and "Ali Ababwa," refugees from the imaginary country "Agraba," attempt to seduce their audience into providing them with food, refuge, security, freedom, and the material benefits of Western consumer society, failing miserably at every step. A hard-hitting presentation of a play-within-a-play assaults the audience as Youssef, Verdecchia, and Chai do Shakespeare, Shaw and Swift one better.
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interesting, darkly humorous take on Western-Islam relations .......2006-04-12
I really enjoyed this play, which reads quickly, keeps things moving, and is very funny as well as very provocative. It has a wizened, absurd sensibility. Some of the dialogue is trying to intentionally be funny and fails, or comes across as silly/stupid; the writing is at its best when it doesn't try to be funny. For a mostly bare stage and just a few actors, this play has a wealth of ideas, commentary, and memorable scenes. I think the world would be a better, more informed place if this play was performed all over. It doesn't take itself seriously (while dealing with serious issues), believes that nothing is sacred, but the humor and jabs are respectful and intelligent. Having been produced in Canada, there are some local/cultural refrences that detract from the play's universal appeal, but this is a minor complaint. An enjoyable, light yet heavy, read. Made me appreciate the theater all over again after becoming pretty jaded with it.
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The title poem of this collection may be Snyder's strongest poem of the 1980s, and this is high praise. Incorporating Snyder's familiar and welcome themes of nature, family and eastern philosophy, it is a passage into a world of insights, small epiphanies, the rhythms of nature and culture, speech and sky, revealing themselves between these lines. Do yourself a favor and take a look at
Axe Handles.
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This is a collection of discovery, of insight, and of vision. These poems see the roots of community in the family, and the roots of culture and government in the community. “In making the handle of an axe by cutting wood with an axe the model is indeed near at hand.” In exploring this axiom of Lu Ji’s, Gary Snyder continues:
I am an axe
And my son a handle, soon
To be shaping again, model
And tool, craft of culture,
How we go on.
Formally, the 71 poems in Axe Handles range from lyrics to riddles to narratives. The collection is divided into three parts, called “Loops,” “Little Songs for Gaia,” and “Nets,” each containing poems of disciplined clarity. Gary Snyder knows well the great power of silence in a poem, silence that allows the mind space enough to discover the magic of song.
Customer Reviews:
Life's cycles: shaped by the axe, patterns at hand..........1998-07-10
The cycles of life, and the cycles within our lives and those which can be experienced and observed in the world around us link the poetry in Gary Snyder's Axe Handles. Attracted by the settings of Snyder's California poems, I've been further drawn to the images and experiences described in them. "Getting in the Wood," "Working on the '58 Willy's Pickup," "Look Back," the selections in "Little Songs for Gaia" take me to locations I've experienced physically. Intellectually what attracts me is the sense of cycles perceived by the reader, and the awareness of cycles by poem's persona. "Axe Handles", the title poem, describes such a cycle: the passing of knowledge from father to son, generation to generation. While my personal experiences with the poet's philosophical framework is not as immediate as my experience with the physical settings, I am becoming more aware of philosophies other than those in the framework in which I was raised. Even with this level of ignorance of the neophyte, I experience the thrill of growing awareness when I recognize the wholeness of life experience described in the poem. The poet makes me want to understand more - a gift to me through his words. Not much of a quest so far, but I've found Snyder's memoir of his travels through India, more of his poetry, and the courage to speak with others about Buddhism and other philosophies different from my own; a modest beginning, yet a stretch for me.
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LX the Love Axe/l: Developing a Caribbean Aesthetic
Kamau Brathwaite
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At once a manifesto for a revolutionary Caribbean aesthetics, a composition of detailed literary analysis, and a scholarly documentation of a vital period in Caribbean history, this work is singular and indispensable. As a study of literary and cultural history, it deals not only with significant texts, but with the wider artistic, popular, and intellectual movements that were part of the profound revolution in Caribbean post-colonial consciousness.
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The Axe's Edge
Kristjana Gunnars
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