Thai food has enjoyed a surge of popularity in the last few years, and with Kiin: Recipes and Stories from Northern Thailand by Nuit Regular, cooks can re-create their favorite recipes at home. This beautiful cookbook not only has some popular favorites, but also new dishes that will appeal to those who love Thai food. Although the dishes included are from just the Northern region of Thailand, there are dozens of recipes that will be familiar to those who eat in Thai restaurants across the country. There are recipes for appetizers, salads, chicken, seafood, beef and pork, curry, and desserts, as well as basic sauces and condiments. There are lists of Thai pantry essentials, as well as a list of equipment needed (only a few things so everyone can make this food).

The photographs are absolutely gorgeous, and they are of not only the mouthwatering dishes, but also people in the country and photographs that reflect the culture of the country. There are photos of almost every recipe (except the basics at the back), which makes it difficult to choose what to make next. The vignettes and stories make one want to travel to the region and eat these delicious dishes firsthand. The recipes are easy to follow and succinct enough that almost everyone, no matter what their cooking skills, can replicate these dishes.

This cookbook is amazing and is one that should be added to every good cookbook collection. The recipes are excellent. It also makes a good book to curl up in a corner and read about a new culture. Highly recommended.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Looking at the lush photographs and reading the recipes made me wish I lived in Canada! I love South Asian food and Thai food in particular. The recipes were authentic and I loved Chef Nuit spin on traditional dishes. My family gobbled up the chicken satay skewers and deep fried shrimp fritters. My other favorites were Nuit pad thai, grilled beef salad and lemongrass stewed chicken thighs.
Huge depth of flavour and easy to follow recipes - would recommend and should I get to Toronto to visit relatives this restaurant will be on my list!
Thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Canada for the opportunity to receive the ARC.

If you read travel books for insight about a country, I read cook books. Weird as it seems, but I love to be in the cook's story and see how people in that country interact by food.

Thailand is a neighboring country, we shared similar climate, thus similar ingredients, way of cooking and philosophy. But of course, they have their way of cooking and specialty. Here, the author brought us to her native northern Thailand.

Being in the North, with its poor soils, is not a point forte of this region. But sticky rice grows in abundance. Therefore I was amazed that the author add sticky rice in most of her meals. And in highland as they are, the food are more spicy and sour than the normal Thai food we can find.

This is an interesting read to see how Northern Thais enjoying their hard but impressive life.

THis one had lots of ingredients I'd never be able to find. I liked the photos and info, but the recipes are going to be hard in North America. At least the middle part without specialty stores.

This book is very nice and it has lots of pictures of the dishes, people and places. Besides the recipes it also tells you stories and gives you lots of tips. the book itself is very well made and it would be a great gift for people that loves Thai cuisine. I personally only get excited about curry, and I would try some of these dishes in Thailand if I ever go there but I wouldn't make them at home because they all require way too many ingredients that I don't have at home. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

This is the Thai cookbook of my dreams. The recipes remind me so much of my favorite (now long closed) hole-in-the-wall crazy good Thai restaurant - I dream of the food I had there and now I might just have a chance of recreating some of it on my own. I own several Thai cookbooks but this is the one I'm most excited about. I'll be adding a hardcover copy of this to my personal library and giving it as gifts. Wonderful!

I don't have a lot of experience with Thai cuisine, but I love a lot of other Asian food so I wanted to give it a try. For me, I just didn't find a whole lot that appealed to me personally that I would bookmark and attempt to make. I do think that is probably more personal preference than anything. I did find the book to be beautiful and I love learning about foods from different parts of the world so I still enjoyed the book.