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| Tangy Tart Hot and Sweet: A World of Recipes for Every Day | 
 enlarge | Author: Padma Lakshmi
Publisher: Weinstein Books
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 46626
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1602860068
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.59
EAN: 9781602860063
ASIN: 1602860068
Publication Date: October 2, 2007
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Product Description
As host of Bravo's popular Top Chef, Padma reaches millions of viewers each week and returns to the page with recipes for sophisticated international cuisine that are easy to prepare. Inspired by her travels to some of the most secluded corners of the planet, Padma shares with cooks the origins of her latest exotic recipes. But you'll never have to feel as though you've just traveled the world in order to prepare them. Padma makes it simple to impress your guests with more than two hundred elegant and savory dishes such as Hot and Sour Fruit Chaat, Tangy Jicama Salad, Puree of Roasted Aubergine, Couscous with Merguez Sausage, South Indian Spinach and Lentil Soup, Red Snapper with Green Apple and Mint Chutney, Roasted Citrus Chicken, Barbecue Korean Short Ribs, and Honeycomb Ice Cream. From appetizers to entrees, soups to desserts--Tangy Tart Hot & Sweet is the perfect book for anyone who wants cooking to be easy, elegant, and unforgettable.
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Loved it! October 22, 2007
18 out of 24 found this review helpful
I was hesitant in purchasing this book as there were no reviews as of yet, however, I think this cookbook is awesome-I tried the mac and cheese with jalapenos and it was divine. I did add a little bit of chipotle cheddar cheese to the recipe. Very impressed with this book.
 Flavorful fusion food November 26, 2007
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
If you love cooking, this book should definitely have a place on your shelf.
This book contains 100s of great recipes that mix and match ethnicities and burst with flavor. I love that some recipes are short and sweet while others are more complicated for when I'm feeling adventurous. While I live in a city with ethnic groceries, I would imagine that some people may have trouble locating more exotic ingredients. Thankfully, Ms Lakshmi provides an online source for ordering hard-to-find ingredients.
She also provides great personal essays which reveal more about who she is than we see on Top Chef.
 OK January 2, 2008
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I feel like maybe this book needed to be proofed a bit more. The recipe for meatballs in spinach sauce came out so watery with the four cups of water that were called for. And the recipe called for 1.5 pounds of lamb and 1 pound of spinach (which is quite a bit of spinach considering it's light weight, most prewashed bags are 6 ounces) yet serves 4-6?
And then the recipe for Madras Curry, the instructions referred to sauteing the onions until they were glossy, but there were no onions listed, only shallots. Perhaps this is splitting hairs onions versus shallots.
I also would have liked to have the total time a recipe takes to have been listed.
 tongue transplant required December 29, 2007
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
My friend and I tried these recipes together; I love to cook and was looking forward to some new recipes with exciting ingredient combinations. Ms. Lakshmi does an excellent job of making us aware of ingredient pairings but i am not sure she has actually tried some of these dishes. For the normal human being her spice palette is not at all tolerable. Her quantity of chipotle and jalapeno are in excess and I am still sweating from last night's dinner. Will my sweet, sour, salt and bitter regions ever be the same again? Caveat emptor!
2 out of 3 ain't bad! February 13, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I received this book as a gift and while I don't usually go to cookbooks for my dinners--I'm much more of a "what's in the cabinet? okay, look online" kind of menu planner--I've given three of these recipes a go. The curry butternut squash soup was good and filling, and nice to add to my repetoire in that the flavor is easily changed to fit the needs (and meat requirements) of various guests. The Jamaican chicken in Red Stripe was terrible, but I'm not sure if that's partially my fault for rushing the browning, or maybe there was something missing? Editing standards are so horribly low these days that it's possible. And we just had the Fiery Shrimp and Linguine. Fiery? Not at all, but very tasty and like Ms. Lakshmi we found ourselves licking our fingers. The ingredients are difficult to locate only for some of the recipes; there are enough recipes for you to try without having to go hunting through the smaller Asian markets. Definitely a good book to help you play more in the kitchen and broaden your horizons--I'm now at least somewhat reconciled to anchovies!
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