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Default Asian Noodle Cookbooks?

ian > wrote:

> I have been reading reviews of Asian Noodle Cookbooks on Amazon, and
> can't find a way to choose one over the other.
>
> Nina Simonds' Asian Noodles: 75 Dishes To Twirl, Slurp, And Savor looks
> pretty good, but some reviewers seem to think she's simplified and
> Americanized too much.
>
> Others appear to like Terry Durack's Noodle, but their writing reads a
> bit like astro-turf - i.e. perhaps writtne by an overeager publisher?
>
> Jacki Passmore's The Noodle Shop Cookbook seems to have the same
> limitations as Nina Simonds'. (Passmore wrote an Asian Ingredient
> Dictionary that I often refer to, so I know that she knows her stuff.)
>
> So, has anyone had good experiences with these or any other
> noodle-specific cookbook, or any other cookbook that includes a hefty
> number of noodle recipes (that they would recommend)?



Bruce Cost; Big Bowl Noodles and Rice

The Wagamama Cookbook

(to add a few more to the list )

Petra

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