- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd (7 Jun 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1405315806
- ISBN-13: 978-1405315807
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 16.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 321,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book helps you to recreate the world's most exciting snacks. Have you ever visited a bustling market abroad, discovered a freshly cooked, local delicacy, and thought 'I'd love to make that at home'? Tom Kime's world tour of fantastic food shows how to bring exotic flavours into your kitchen. Take your tastebuds on a global adventure and cook up 90 easy-to-follow recipes, from Chilean seafood empanadas to Moroccan hira bean soup. Pick up local cooking tips and techniques, and follow inspirational ideas for mixing a variety of dishes including fritters, mezze, tapas and kebabs, so you can serve up a truly global street food experience.Evocative, exotic and above all delicious, street food stirs, sizzles and surprises. Tom Kime develops a taste for street food on his own doorrstep - on the streets of Southall's Indian community. He then travels around the world to countries renowned for their street food - Mexico, the Lebanon, Malta, Vietnam. Back home he writes up the recipes to recreate the authentic tastes of his travels, using ingredients readily available here. Evocative narrative alongside each recipe recalls Tom's travels and where he tried each dish. He leaves you yearning - either to follow in his footsteps, or to start creating and eating his exotic offerings here - in your own kitchen.
About the Author
Tom Kime cut his catering teeth with Rick Stein, and worked at the River Cafe with Jamie Oliver (he cooked at Jamie's wedding). Now a private chef and food consultant, Tom has opened Food at The Muse in Notting Hill, and writes for BBC's Good Food Magazine, Olive, and Waitrose Food Illustrated. His first book, Exploring Taste and Flavour, was published in 2005.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
'The sharing of street food really brings the community together. In countries in the Middle East and South East Asia, you will often see family and friends all enjoying street food dishes as a group.
The party may span several generations.
Sharing different dishes of street food makes for a very informal, relaxed type of meal....
Different textures and flavours build a colourful mixture of contrasts - much like the family or friends who are enjoying the meal.....'
...Over 90 delicious dishes, continent-by-continent - the gorgeous food of markets, open-air stalls and cafés and bars.
Menu pages suggest how to mix and match recipes for parties - such as picnics, barbecues and evening drinks....'
'Goi Cuon' (Summer Rolls) adorn the front cover which opens to 224 high quality, shiny pages, split over main sections:-
(1) The World Tour
* India and Sri Lanka
* Southeast Asia
* Latin America and the Caribbean
* Southern Europe
* The Middle East and North Africa
(2) The Menus
* Picnic
* Barbecue
* Leisurely Lunch
* Cosy Night In
* Drinks Party
preceded by a 'Recipe Navigator' (recipes at a glance, organised by type of dish, rather than by country of origin), and ending with a glossary, useful websites and a full index.
Each chapter in the 'World Tour' opens with relevant regional text and is followed by a diary page then the recipes.
Each recipe has a relevant and informative opening note, the titles (foreign and English), the number of servings, the list of ingredients and a clearly laid out, numbered method. The region is also at the bottom of the page.
Colour photography from Lisa Linder, accompanies most - with some on-location shots dotted throughout.
A small taste of the recipes contained within:-
* Potato and Cumin Curry
* Pumpkin Pudding
* Spicy Bean Soup
* Mango, Papaya and Pineapple Salad
* Toasted Pitta Bread Salad
* Creamy Coconut Curry Sauce
* Paper-wrapped Chicken
* Seafood Empanadas
* Chard Soup with Rice and Turmeric
* Salt Cod Croquettes
* Spiced Roasted Almonds
* Lamb Meatballs with Sour Cherry Sauce
* Grilled Spring Onions wrapped in Pancetta
* Marinated Quail with Caper Sauce
* Sweet Fried Ravioli
* Chinese Barbecue Pork
* Spicy Lamb Chops
* Almond and Cardamom Biscuits
* Afghani Flat Bread
* Fresh Peach Salsa
* Yoghurt Cream Cheese Dip
* Banana and Cinnamon Pancakes
* Date Pastries
My favourites to date:-
'Spinach and Walnut Salad', from pages 178/179
and
'Libyan Pumpkin Dip', from pages 182/183
'Street food is often thought of simply as snacks eaten with fingers, but there are also much more elaborate dishes that constitute a whole meal. When transported into your home, they provide something completely different than the fare found at your average dinner party...........
It is a very relaxed way of dining, as each guest has a bowl or a small plate, and chooses whatever he or she wants........
The meal is not rushed, with breaks between dishes whilst another is prepared, leaving time or chatting.
Your guests will definitely be impressed.'
And they certainly are, each mid-summer's day, when our whole street turns out to enjoy an evening together, each bringing their own food (and drink) to share, some inspired by the recipes in this useful and very different book!
The party may span several generations.
Sharing different dishes of street food makes for a very informal, relaxed type of meal....
Different textures and flavours build a colourful mixture of contrasts - much like the family or friends who are enjoying the meal.....'
...Over 90 delicious dishes, continent-by-continent - the gorgeous food of markets, open-air stalls and cafés and bars.
Menu pages suggest how to mix and match recipes for parties - such as picnics, barbecues and evening drinks....'
'Goi Cuon' (Summer Rolls) adorn the front cover which opens to 224 high quality, shiny pages, split over main sections:-
(1) The World Tour
* India and Sri Lanka
* Southeast Asia
* Latin America and the Caribbean
* Southern Europe
* The Middle East and North Africa
(2) The Menus
* Picnic
* Barbecue
* Leisurely Lunch
* Cosy Night In
* Drinks Party
preceded by a 'Recipe Navigator' (recipes at a glance, organised by type of dish, rather than by country of origin), and ending with a glossary, useful websites and a full index.
Each chapter in the 'World Tour' opens with relevant regional text and is followed by a diary page then the recipes.
Each recipe has a relevant and informative opening note, the titles (foreign and English), the number of servings, the list of ingredients and a clearly laid out, numbered method. The region is also at the bottom of the page.
Colour photography from Lisa Linder, accompanies most - with some on-location shots dotted throughout.
A small taste of the recipes contained within:-
* Potato and Cumin Curry
* Pumpkin Pudding
* Spicy Bean Soup
* Mango, Papaya and Pineapple Salad
* Toasted Pitta Bread Salad
* Creamy Coconut Curry Sauce
* Paper-wrapped Chicken
* Seafood Empanadas
* Chard Soup with Rice and Turmeric
* Salt Cod Croquettes
* Spiced Roasted Almonds
* Lamb Meatballs with Sour Cherry Sauce
* Grilled Spring Onions wrapped in Pancetta
* Marinated Quail with Caper Sauce
* Sweet Fried Ravioli
* Chinese Barbecue Pork
* Spicy Lamb Chops
* Almond and Cardamom Biscuits
* Afghani Flat Bread
* Fresh Peach Salsa
* Yoghurt Cream Cheese Dip
* Banana and Cinnamon Pancakes
* Date Pastries
My favourites to date:-
'Spinach and Walnut Salad', from pages 178/179
and
'Libyan Pumpkin Dip', from pages 182/183
'Street food is often thought of simply as snacks eaten with fingers, but there are also much more elaborate dishes that constitute a whole meal. When transported into your home, they provide something completely different than the fare found at your average dinner party...........
It is a very relaxed way of dining, as each guest has a bowl or a small plate, and chooses whatever he or she wants........
The meal is not rushed, with breaks between dishes whilst another is prepared, leaving time or chatting.
Your guests will definitely be impressed.'
And they certainly are, each mid-summer's day, when our whole street turns out to enjoy an evening together, each bringing their own food (and drink) to share, some inspired by the recipes in this useful and very different book!
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
You know when you travel abroad and the native fast food is so flavourful - this is the book to get if you'd like to try and recapture some of those tasty delights.
Easy to follow recipes, sure to enhance your culinary skills. A must buy for anyone who enjoys good food!
Easy to follow recipes, sure to enhance your culinary skills. A must buy for anyone who enjoys good food!
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
2 reviews
So many good ideas
24 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover
Seafood empanadas, sweet fried ravioli, prawn fritters, I enjoyed not only the recipes but also the pictures and stories that Kime uses in his cookbook. I've only tried a handful, but I'm looking forward to sampling more.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
great book, recipes, and pictures
28 Feb 2010
Format:Hardcover
This is a great book about street food around the world.
If you want to take a look into Asia, Africa, Europe and America food culture, this is the right book for you.
Food heritage of each country lives in their streets.
Plus: recipes and lovely photography.
If you want to take a look into Asia, Africa, Europe and America food culture, this is the right book for you.
Food heritage of each country lives in their streets.
Plus: recipes and lovely photography.
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