Stephanie from Wasabimon! has invited Pat Tanumihardja, author of The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook: Home Cooking from Asian American Kitchens and the new iPhone/iPad app, The Asian Ingredients 101 to write a post on how to prepare Asian foods using gluten-free ingredients. It’s full of great information from someone who truly knows she’s talking about.
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“Researching a cookbook can unearth many gems to be stored away for later projects. That’s exactly what happened when I started working on my book, “The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook.”
Many people I met along the way, including my recipe testers, related their struggles with Asian ingredients. Since I started eating smelly shrimp paste as a wee one, and my tongue has never tripped when asking for galangal, it never occurred to me how intimidating an Asian pantry might be for the uninitiated. Then it hit me. Why not devise a portable glossary complete with photos and descriptions that you can take to the Asian market or when you’re traveling? Et voila, “Asian Ingredients 101” was born!…”
