Adventures in Thai Cooking
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It Rains Fishes: Legends,
Traditions and the Joys of Thai
Cooking
It Rains Fishes
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By Kasma Loha-unchit
It Rains Fishes won the 1996 Julia Child Cookbook Award as the Best
International Cookbook of 1995. More than just a recipe book, it is a book about Thai
cooking that shows how food and cooking are a direct means for understanding Thai culture,
legends and traditions. Personal and traditional stories interweave with information on
all major Thai ingredients. The focus extends beyond blindly following recipes to learning
how to use the major flavors to create true "Thai" dishes whether one is following a
recipe or not. Kasma's second cookbook is Dancing Shrimp: Favorite Thai Recipes for Seafood published in 2000.
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It Rains Fishes
Blessed by the Rice
Mother
Thanking the Rice Goddess
"Grandma Six Fingers" and Heart Values
Traditions and Ceremonies Around the Rice Mother
Thanking the Water Spirits
A Rice
Goddess Folk Tale
Rice Bucket Ways
Dining Thai-Style
Monkey Business
"The Best Rice in the World": Jasmine Rice
"Perfect Rice" Every Time
Sticky
Rice – A Special Chewy White Rice
Black Sticky Rice: A
Nutty Whole-Grain
Recipes
Coconut-Flavored Sticky Rice with Mangoes
Sticky Rice and Corn Pudding
Black
Sticky Rice Pudding
A Story of Alchemy: A Folktale
The Art and Joys of Thai Cooking
"When in Doubt, Add Fish Sauce"
Creating Harmonies with Primary Flavors
The Hot Flavor and Its Sources
The
Magic Elixir of Thai Cuisine: Fish Sauce
Other Sources of
Saltiness – includes Shrimp Paste
The Sour Flavor and Its Sources
The Sweet Flavor and Its Sources – includes Palm Sugar
Balancing Flavors: An Exercise
Recipes
Broccoli with Thai Oyster Sauce
String Beans with Roasted Chillie Sauce
Of Chillies, Spices and "Mice"
Of Chillies and "Mice"
Which Is Hot and Which Is Hotter
What To Do When You Are On Fire
The
Life-Enhancing Qualities of Chillies
Peppercorns: The "Thai
Pepper"
Recipe
Garlic-Peppered Shrimps
Fresh Herbal Flavors Distinguish Thai
Cuisine
The Foundation
The Magical Three ( See:
kaffir limes at the FourWinds website.)
Mints and
Basils, Holy and Not
The Supporting Roles
Recipes
Hot-and-Sour Prawn Soup
Spicy Basil Chicken
Things Your Mother
Never Told You About Coconut
Monkey Business
Coconut – A Natural Food-and-Refreshment Package
"Cream of the Crop" – Coconut Milk (Gkati)
To Crack a Coconut
Preparing a Coconut for
Pressing Milk
Coconut Milk – Canned and Frozen
Coconut Milk: High in Cholesterol? NO!
Coconut: A Fruit, a Nut, or a Seed?
Recipes
Coconut
Seafood Soup with Galanga
Grilled Coconut Cake
Coconut
Egg Custard
Bananas in Coconut
Milk
Curry – A Way of Cooking, Not a Yellow Powder
The Many Faces of Thai Curries
Curries Simplified
Assembling A Curry
Paste-Making: A Gratifying
Experience
Recipes
Easy
Green Curry with Pork
Green Curry with Fish/Shrimp Dumplings
Easy Massaman Curry with Chicken
Massaman Curry with Goat or Lamb
Crispy Fried Catfish Coated with Red
Curry Sauce
"Sea Breezes" Cool Hot Summer Days
Creating a Breezy Harmony: Blending Flavors and Ingredients
Calling Up the Sea Breeze: Assembling the Salad
A Southern Sea Breeze
Recipes
Hot And Sour
Squid Salad
Spicy Mussel Salad
Spicy Cashew Salad}
Squid Tales and Cleaning Tips
"Solar" Squid
More Squid Tales
Other Thoughts on
Squid and Cleaning Squid
Cleaning Squid: A Quick and Easy
Method
Recipe
Garlic-Peppered Squid
Fish and More Fish
A Most Unforgettable Fishing
Trip!
A Few Favorite Ways to Fix Fish
Recipes
Spicy Seafood Noodles – "Drunken"
Noodles
Steamed Striped Bass with
Chillie-Lime Sauce
Roasted Fish in
Banana Leaf
Crispy Fried Red Snapper
or Grouper with Chillie-Tamarind Sauce
Southern Fried Turmeric Catfish
The Flying Morning Glory
Wokking Over Red
Hot Flames
Flying into the Night
Recipe
"Red-Flamed" Morning
Glory
Thai Fast Food: Crowded Sidewalks and Waterways
A Sampling of Street Cuisine
Recipes
Savory 
Grilled Coconut-Rice Pancakes
Fried Bananas
Miang Kam
Pad Thai Noodles
Hot and Sour Dry Rice Noodles
Heart
Culture, "Soul Food"
Some Important Heart Values
Food for Soul and Spirit
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It Rains Fishes covers Copyright © 1995 Toby Goodenough.
All material on this website is Copyright © 1995 to 2008 Kasma Loha-unchit. All rights reserved.
For comments, feedback or questions, contact Kasma.
Last Updated 24 August 2006.