The Elephant Walk Cookbook: Cambodian Cuisine (Hardcover)

If you have ever had the luck to visit Cambodia you will know that the cooking there is fantastic.

The Elephant Walk Cookbook, the first volume of traditional Cambodian cooking published in the U.S., is a cultural as well as a culinary adventure. It’s also the story of author Longteine De Monteiro and how she and her husband were forced into exile in 1975 and eventually came to own three restaurants and a market in and around Boston.

With over 360 pages and around 150 recipes accompanied with beautiful photographs this book is a joy to own.

An important reason Longteine De Monteiro wrote this book–with Katherine Neustadt–was to preserve traditional dishes that now may no longer be served in Cambodia.

Cambodian cooking blends influences from Asia and the West, including China, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Spain, and France.

It is a balancing act of colors, textures, and most of all, salty, sour, sweet, hot, and bitter flavors.

Have a look at what others have said after buying The Elephant Walk Cookbook.

If you love exotic cuisine and preparing it at home, then I would suggest that this book should be on the top of your list. Just for starters, Cambodian cuisine is probably the tastiest of the SE Asian cuisines. And what’s more, the recipes are usually quite simple to prepare. The cookbook is expertly laid out. Even more handy about this book is the fact that there are many colored pictures of the dishes and the exotic ingredients. If you’ve never shopped at an Asian grocery store, it’s very useful to know what the product looks like. This is a great cookbook. N. Jacobs  (Fish Creek, Wi USA)

Even a white guy can cook like a Cambodian with this. The book’s very well laid out, easy to follow and could even be a coffee table book. It has a good cross reference to explanations of ingredients that even allow a Texan like myself to impress my Cambodian wife by cooking some dishes as well as her mother. By Bill  (Key Largo)

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