The World's Best Street Food: Where to Find It & How to Make It brings you menus that are available on every street corner that fulfils every dietary need right into your own kitchen. From pupusa, which is often considered the national dish of El Salvador and som tam (papaya salad), Thailand's best-loved street food dish to the Polish icon pierogi, a crescent-shaped doughy delight with a variety of fillings, the menus offer both savoury and sweet items.
The World’s Best Street Food: Where to Find It & How to Make It (1st edition) By food writers from around the world with an introduction by Tom Parker Bowles ISBN: 978-1742205939 224 pages
Featuring about 100 authentic recipes, The World's Best Street Food offers simple, step-by-step instructions for perfect ingredient preparation. And each menu comes with a description, the origin of the dish and how it tastes, along with mouth-watering pictures. Also included is an evocative profile of each dish which shows you where to find the best examples when you're on the road.
There's even a glossary that includes explanations of exotic ingredients with easy-to-find alternatives.
The World's Best Street Food is mainly written by Tom Parker Bowles, a food writer with an ever-expanding belly. The other contributing authors, who have many years of experience in the food industry and food writing, include Daniel Robinson, Ethan Gelber, Kate Armstrong, Matt Bolton and Meredith Synder.
The World's Best Street Food: Where to Find It & How to Make It is not only a book dedicated to some of the greatest eating in the world, but a book in which you can learn the street-food culture in each country, too - somewhere among the taco carts and noodle stalls, the scent of wood fires and hubbub of fellow diners. Simply put, this volume is where you will find the real soul of a cuisine and its culture.
As delicate as morning dew, this Vietnamese roll wrapped in translucent rice paper is a mighty mouthful.
A thick soup made from broad beans, B’Sarra makes the perfect street food.
The giant sea snail known as the conch is more than just food. It’s a symbol of the island nation’s resourcefulness, humility and oneness with the ocean.
A steaming-hot water-thin pancake filled with anything from cherries and cream to salmon and caviar, the blin is Russian’s two-fingered fast-food salute to the McMeal and a quick-fire way to the heart of the country’s street life.
Pad Thai is the most famous Thai dish in the world.
Sarawak laksa is a supremely satisfying way to begin the day. It’s the dish Sarawakians most often crave for when they’re away from Borneo.
Warm, spiced milky tea masala chai is the perfect 5pm boost. It’s usually sipped with salty snacks.
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