{"title":"Asian, Hawaiian and Pacific Island Heritage Month","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome of our favorite books that highlight the foods, foodways and customs from Asia, the Pacific Islands and Hawaii. This collection contains both vintage and new cookbooks and authors from diverse backgrounds. Dig in a little and explore how these recipes and stories showed up in the past and in the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fwigUyIpgo?si=ZO3-o_wltflPfFQR\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-splash-of-soy-by-laura-lee","title":"A Splash of Soy (2023)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTake a journey into home cooking with Chinese-Australian \u003cstrong\u003eLara Lee.\u003c\/strong\u003e She fills her book with stories and recipes that showcase the many flavors found around her home country of Australia and her adopted city of London. She draws deeply from her family's background and also digs into cooking traditions from all over Asia. Her book of “simple Asian home cooking” shows how a few ingredients can add incredible depth and umami to quick and easy recipes. She shares how she developed her recipes and how they connect to different parts of Asia and Australia. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAnd it's not just about the recipes themselves; Laura Lee provides helpful tips and tricks along the way, ensuring that even the most intimidated cooks can dive headfirst into the world of soy sauce with confidence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eRecipe Highlights: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrying Tiger\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 83 is a variation of a Thai recipe called “seua rong hai” which translates to Crying Tiger. Lee shares some of the origin stories about this dish of marinated, grilled steak along with tips to get maximum flavor. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCheesy Kimchee Linguini with Gochujang Butter\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 30 uses so many of my favorite ingredients (cheese, eggs, kimchi, gochujang, and BUTTER! That I have to recommend this book just because of this recipe alone!  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThom Khing Gai,\u003c\/em\u003e p. 71. Literally, “boiled galangal chicken soup” adapts the recipe for a relatively quick preparation (35 minutes) that can be on the table on a weeknight even if the traditional galangal is not available in your neck of the woods.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Depot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47738559791297,"sku":"10NB10417","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/5445\/8561\/files\/splashofsoy.jpg?v=1715485116"},{"product_id":"home-is-where-the-eggs-are","title":"Home is Where the Eggs Are (2022)","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Molly Yeh. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the host of Food Network’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Girl Meets Farm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand bestselling author of the IACP award-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMolly on the Range, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea collection of cozy recipes that feel like celebrations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHome Is Where the Eggs Are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a beautiful, intimate book full of food that’s best enjoyed in the comfort of sweatpants and third-day hair, by a beloved Food Network host and new mom living on a sugar beet farm in East Grand Forks, MN. Molly Yeh’s cooking is built to fit into life with her baby, Bernie, and the naptimes, diaper changes, and wiggle time that come with having a young child, making them a breeze to fit into any sort of schedule, no matter how busy. They’re low-maintenance dishes that are satisfying to make for weeknight meals to celebrate empty to-do lists after long workdays, cozy Sunday soups to simmer during the first (or seventh!) snowfall of the year, and desserts that will keep happily under the cake dome for long enough that you will never feel pressure to share.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe flavors in this book draw inspiration from a distinctive blend of Molly’s experiences—her Chinese and Jewish heritage, her time living in New York, her husband’s Scandinavian heritage, and their farm in the upper Midwest. She uses seasonal ingredients that are common in her region while singlehandedly supporting the za’atar and sumac import industry in her small town. These influences come together into fuss-free crave-able meals that dirty as few dishes as possible and offer loads of prep-ahead, freezing, and substitution tips, such as:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBabka Cereal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMozzarella Stick Salad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDoughnut Matzo Brei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHam and Potato Pizza\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChicken and Stars Soup\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOrange Blossom Creamsicle Smoothies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHand-pulled Noodles with Potsticker Filling Sauce\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarzipan Chocolate Chip Cookies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHome Is Where the Eggs Are, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe feeling of home starts in the kitchen; just melt some butter, fry an egg, and build a little memory around it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNEW\/REMAINDER HARDCOVER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Depot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48689906811073,"sku":"10NB10281","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/5445\/8561\/files\/homeEggs.jpg?v=1727640835"},{"product_id":"slow-noodles","title":"Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes (2024)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author's blog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-size-tag-paragraph s-text-font-size-over-default\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eTake a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale extermination. Subtract a reliable source of food, life savings, and family members, until all are gone. Shave down childhood dreams for approximately two decades, until only subsistence remains.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal s-rich-text-wrapper font-size-tag-paragraph s-text-font-size-over-default\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlow Noodles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodian refugee who loses everything and everyone—home, family, and country—all but the remembered tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen. She takes us back to the quiet rhythms of 1960s Battambang, her provincial hometown, before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart and exterminated more than a million Cambodians, including ethnic Vietnamese like Nguon and her family. Then, as an emigrant in Saigon, the author loses her mother, brothers, and sister and eventually flees to a refugee camp in Thailand. For two decades in exile, she survives by cooking in a brothel, serving drinks in a nightclub, making and selling street food, becoming a suture nurse, and weaving silk. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal Apple-converted-space font-size-tag-paragraph s-text-font-size-over-default\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNguon’s irrepressible spirit and determination come through in this lyrical and inspirational memoir that includes more than twenty family recipes for dishes like chicken lime soup, green papaya pickles, and pâté de foie, as well as Khmer curries, stir-fries, and handmade b\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eá\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enh canh noodles. 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