Everybody's San Francisco Cookbook Review

Everybody's San Francisco Cookbook
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This book has really expanded my cooking. I've always been afraid to do any ethnic cooking, in large part because I was afraid of exotic ingredients and never enjoyed dumbed down recipies that leave out those ingredients. This book gives useful background info on the cooking of many regions (Japan, China, Middle East, South America), then gives great descriptions of the ingredients that it calls for. I live in San Francisco, and it's been great fun using the guide to ethnic food stores and tracking down things like galangal and lemongrass.
Ingredients aside, most of the recipies are straightforward, and I've had great success with them. The ingredient lists on many recipies are intimidating, but usually preparation is quick (measuring them into a food processor, etc.).
It's been very satisfying to cook many of my favorite restaurant foods. Hot and sour soup one night. Chicken curry another. I also learned about great dishes I never heard of before. My favorite section is Southeast Asia. The peanut sauces are killer.
The menu suggestions have been very useful, as well, because I really don't know what dishes to combine for a dinner party.
I use the book whenever I'm in a cooking rut and want to try something new.

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A delicious celebration of San Francisco's ethnic cuisines, revealing the secrets of cooking the City's global dishes. Features the foods of China, India, Italy, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East, Morocco, Southeast Asia, and Spain. Demystifies the world's everyday dishes with easy-to-understand recipes, tips on technique, and suggested menus. Includes recipes for popular dishes from the City's best restaurants, from Cha Cha Cha's Cajun Shrimp and Straits Cafe's Barbecued Fish in Banana Leaf to Rose Pistola's Gnocchi with Calamari Bolognese. Informs with a detailed glossary of ingredients that explains not only what they are, but also how to buy them a jar in the spice rack, a fresh bundle in the produce section, a plastic bag in the freezer case. Provides an extensive guide to Bay Area specialty food stores, showing you where to find elusive ingredients, from caches of fresh galangal root in San Francisco's Chinatown to bags of papas criollas in San Rafael; from Indian spice-filled warehouses in Berkeley to pan-Asian produce-filled supermarkets in Silicon Valley. The San Francisco Bay Area is a wonderful place to live. It holds a bounty of cultures, a diversity that enhances our lives. Few areas of the globe have such varied culinary offerings. So go out, explore the ethnic markets, and get down to some of the best cooking on the planet.

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