SC - Re: Asian Cuisine (PPC Issues)

[alysk@ix.netcom.com]

Well, I guess it'll be good to have some documentation for Thai food.  That
explains my confusion when I looked at the original title of the work...I
usually recognize and can translate some of the simpler Chinese words, but these
looked totally unfamiliar!  Now I know why.

Thanks for the information!

Kiri

Nanna Rognvaldardottir wrote:

> Kiri wrote:
> The article in
> >58 is "Head Cook from the Forest" by Su-Mei Yu (which is backwards for
> Chinese names,
> >IIRC...it should be Yu Su-mei).  I have no idea what the last one is, but
> if it's any
> >good, I'll let you folks know.
>
> It is actually rather good but has nothing to do with medieval cooking. It
> is a description of a Thai "funeral cookbook", written sometime in the
> latter part of the 19th century and is probably the earliest substantial
> document on the history of Thai food. This book has about 300 recipes and a
> dozen or so are printed in the PPC article.
>
> Nanna
>
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