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Cindy Fuller[_2_] Cindy Fuller[_2_] is offline
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Default Oh, Christine....

In article >, "Jean B." >
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> I have a lot of Asian cookbooks. I was most surprised to see that
> there are several Cambodian cookbooks that I had never heard of.
> I looked them up, and they run about $100 each. I suspect that
> folks on the West Coast may see more Asian cookbooks than we do
>

Do you have the Elephant Walk Cookbook? I've never made a bum recipe
from it. Its hot and sour catfish soup is to die for.

> I am curious about your Vietnamese cookbooks. I got one in the
> 70s and have gotten a few since then. I was going to say that I
> have not seen any particularly esoteric books, but last year I did
> get a trilingual one published in Vietnam. I also have one in
> Vietnamese, which I thought I could somehow translate. Nope.
> Maybe I'll do some experiments after I get moved and get my books
> organized.


I have The Classic Cuisine of Vietnam by Bach Ngo and Gloria Zimmerman,
which was published in 1979. I also have volumes by Mai Pham, Andrea
Nguyen, and Nicole Routhier. I don't have any written in Vietnamese.
You're more ambitious than I am.

Cindy

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