Download or read book Practical Thai Cooking written by Puangkram C. Schmitz and published by Kodansha Amer Incorporated. This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exotic food of Thailand blends elements of Chinese & Indian cooking on a wholly distinctive cuisine. Here is a Thai cookbook in English, full of tom yam soups, kaeng phet curries, nam prik hot sauces & ohter tasty dishes. The emphasis is practical: how to find coriander root & lemon grass; how to use hot chili without regret; how to substitute for hard-to-get blachan or coriander leaves.