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Dancing Shrimp: Favorite Thai Recipes for Seafood

Dancing Shrimp
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* Story of Dancing Shrimp
* A Seafood Culture
* Shrimp Paste
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I have been a fan of Kasma Loha-unchit's since first reading her award-winning It Rains Fishes. In Dancing Shrimp, she once again gives us a jewel with enchanting prose, extensive information, and delightful recipes.
       – Nina Simonds, author of A Spoonful of Ginger

Dancing Shrimp: Favorite Thai Recipes For Seafood by: Kasma Loha-unchit, Simon & Schuster, October 2000 ( 304 pages, $30.00 ), Hardcover, ISBN: 0-684-86272-7. Now out of print.

Dancing Shrimp, published by Simon & Schuster is a book of Kasma's favorite Thai Recipes for Seafood including both traditional Thai recipes and Kasma's original recipes. It contains a wealth of information on how to work with a variety of fish, shellfish and mollusks. One chapter contains detailed information about all of the ingredients used in the book – Kasma's husband thinks this chapter alone makes the book worth owning. As with her previous book, It Rains Fishes, the detailed cooking methods,instructions and recipes are woven into a tapestry of cultural imagery, folklore and personal impressions of the country where Kasma grew up.

Now out of print, it may still be available as a used book from places such as Amazon. We hope to begin selling it through this website in March 2005.

Options:  Table of contents (below)   |  Reviews   |  Order information   |  It Rains Fishes   |  Contact Kasma

Excerpts:  Cooking "to Taste"   |  Story of Dancing Shrimp   |  A Seafood Culture  |  Shrimp Paste   |  Recipes

Introduction – The Story of Dancing Shrimp

1. Thai Cooking Basics (includes Cooking "to Taste")
2. A Seafood Culture
3. Preserved Foods and Flavoring Ingredients from the Sea – Sample selection.
4. Ingredients and Tips for Selection and Preparation – Sample selection.
5. Techniques and Equipment
6. Fish (including recipes – see below)
7. Crustaceans (including recipes – see below)
8. Mollusks (including recipes – see below)

Fish recipes include:

• Hot-and-Sour, Pan-fried Trout Soup with Roasted Chillies and Aromatic Herbs
• Lime-Cooked Halibut Dressed with Roasted Chilli Sauce, Toasted Coconut and Peanuts
• Braised Whole Tilapia with Ginger and Green Onions
• Crisped Catfish Salad with Sour Green Mango and Peanuts or Cashews
• Curried Mousse of Red Snapper in Banana Leaf Cups
• Charcoal-Grilled Spiced Fish in Banana Leaf Packets
• Garlic-Peppered Pompano
• Catfish Rounds Simmered in Turmeric-Flavored Coconut Sauce
• Garlic-Black Bean Pan-Fried Red Snapper
• Mesquite-Grilled-and-Smoked Fish with Piquant Sour Tamarind Sauce
• Pan-Fried Mackerel and Assorted Vegetables with Hot-and-Pungent Fermented Shrimp Dipping Sauce

Crustacean recipes include:

• Hot-and-Sour Shrimp Salad with Roasted Chilli Sauce, Lemon Grass and Mint
• Crispy Shrimp-and-Crab Toast with Sesame Seeds Served with Sweet-and-Sour Plum Sauce
• Dancing Shrimp
• Country-Style Hot-and-Sour Prawn Soup with Aromatic Herbs and Oyster Mushrooms
• Savory Shrimp Cakes Served with Sweet-and-Sour Cucumber Relish
• Charcoal-Grilled Jumbo Prawns or Lobster Tails Topped with Sour Tamarind Sauce
• Hot-and-Sour Lemon Grass Tiger Prawns
• Fried Crab Cakes
• Black-Peppered Crab with Roasted Spices

Mollusk and Mixed Seafood Dishes include:

• Clams Stir-fried with Roasted Chilli Sauce and Basil
• Crispy Shrimp-and-Crab-Stuffed Squid
• Stuffed Squid Soup with Napa Cabbage or Squash
• Crispy Shrimp-and-Crab-Stuffed Squid
• Sizzling Stir-fried Squid with Chillies and Fragrant Herbs
• Squid Sauted with Garlic and Lime
• Clam and Mussel Coconut Lime Soup with Oyster Mushrooms
• Shellfish Salad with Aromatic Thai Herbs, Crisped Shallots and Garlic, and Sweet-and-Sour Chilli Dressing
• Marinated Mesquite-Grilled Scallops Served with Sweet-and-Tangy Dipping Sauce
• Curried Mussels on the Half Shell with Flaked Crab
• Mixed Seafood Salad with Lemon Grass, Mint and Chilli-Lime Dressing

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Excerpts:  Cooking "to Taste"   |  Story of Dancing Shrimp   |  A Seafood Culture  |  Shrimp Paste   |  Recipes

Dancing Shrimp is currently out of print. It originally was published in Fall 2000 by Simon & Schuster. The cover price was $30.00 (hardcover) plus state sales tax, where applicable.

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Excerpts:  Cooking "to Taste"   |  Story of Dancing Shrimp   |  A Seafood Culture   |  Shrimp Paste   |  Recipes

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Last Updated 25 October 2007.