I hardly ever cook from recipes. Which probably sounds weird coming from someone who spends a lot of her time writing them, but there it is. I suspect I’m like a lot of cooks; I have an embarrassingly large collection of cookbooks, but I tend to open them for ideas and inspiration rather than to follow a particular recipe. But every now and then a book comes along that I’m compelled to cook from, and Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey is one of those. more>
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