This is a book review of The Pho Cookbook: Easy To Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favourite Soup and Noodles by Andrea Nguyen that was published by Ten Speed Press on 7 February 2017.
Born in Vietnam, Andrea Nguyen is a cookbook author, food writer and cooking teacher now based in San Francisco. Andrea has a brilliant website Viet World Kitchen with lots of great recipes.
This is a cookbook with both easy and adventurous recipes for Vietnam's favourite soup and noodles - pho.
There are lots of different ways to make pho and this shows you 50 different recipes from quick weeknight cheats to five hour weekend feasts.
It also includes recipes for snacks, salads and accompaniments to go with the pho including Vietnamese coffee (which I have become addicted to thanks to my brother's Vietnamese girlfriend!).
There are lots of helpful hints and tips about preparing pho and Vietnamese cuisine in general which I found really useful.
The photographs of the finished dishes are beautiful as are the photos taken on location in Vietnam which add interest to the book. Reading this as an ebook was a bit difficult and a hardcopy version of this cookbook is a must to use in the kitchen.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves Vietnamese food and wants to make this cuisine, especially pho, at home.
Born in Vietnam, Andrea Nguyen is a cookbook author, food writer and cooking teacher now based in San Francisco. Andrea has a brilliant website Viet World Kitchen with lots of great recipes.
This is a cookbook with both easy and adventurous recipes for Vietnam's favourite soup and noodles - pho.
There are lots of different ways to make pho and this shows you 50 different recipes from quick weeknight cheats to five hour weekend feasts.
It also includes recipes for snacks, salads and accompaniments to go with the pho including Vietnamese coffee (which I have become addicted to thanks to my brother's Vietnamese girlfriend!).
There are lots of helpful hints and tips about preparing pho and Vietnamese cuisine in general which I found really useful.
The photographs of the finished dishes are beautiful as are the photos taken on location in Vietnam which add interest to the book. Reading this as an ebook was a bit difficult and a hardcopy version of this cookbook is a must to use in the kitchen.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves Vietnamese food and wants to make this cuisine, especially pho, at home.
I give this book 4 stars out of 5
Jarrah Jungle's Star Rating:
Jarrah Jungle's Star Rating:
1 Bad - I'd rather eat brussel sprouts topped with anchovies than read this again
2 Not Good - I'd rather watch paint dry than read this again
3 Ok - I'm sitting on the fence - its not great but not terrible either
4 Good - I'd give up a bottle of the worlds best champagne for this read
5 Great - I'd pass up a date with Ryan Gosling for this read
The Pho Cookbook can be purchased from the author here or Ten Speed Press - Penguin Random House
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2 Not Good - I'd rather watch paint dry than read this again
3 Ok - I'm sitting on the fence - its not great but not terrible either
4 Good - I'd give up a bottle of the worlds best champagne for this read
5 Great - I'd pass up a date with Ryan Gosling for this read
The Pho Cookbook can be purchased from the author here or Ten Speed Press - Penguin Random House
Sharing my book review on Good Reads here and Netgalley
Disclosure: NetGalley partner with bloggers such as me to help promote authors and their books and I was given this ebook published by Ten Speed Press to review. As always, all opinions are my own.
[Image via Penguin Random House]
Yum! We have a restaurant here called Pho Grand. Def. yummy noodles! How cool that there is a book with just pho recipes!
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