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224 pages, 8 1/4 x 10 1/4
Colour photographs throughout
Hardcover
Release Date:01 Oct 2020
ISBN:9781477322222
Thai Fresh
Beloved Recipes from a South Austin Icon
By Jam Sanitchat and Kim Lane
University of Texas Press
Found within the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Bouldin Creek is Thai Fresh, a gluten-free bakery, coffeehouse, vegan ice cream mecca, and most importantly, Thai restaurant and learning center. Chef Jam Sanitchat built this culinary complex and teaching space piece by piece by expanding into neighboring spaces, forging relationships with local growers and producers, and adding new facets to her culinary repertoire as time and money allowed. The result is a wildly successful amalgam of food, beverages, and services that probably shouldn’t work together but somehow does. Thai Fresh is the roadmap to that success. Follow Jam from her early days of cooking for friends during graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, to her popular farmers market stand, to her current establishment. Along the way, she taught thousands of people the art of cooking Thai cuisine, and fed eager crowds at countless cultural and community events. Discover why this collection of Jam’s top-selling and most sought-after recipes, like Thai-Style Chicken and Waffle and The ULTIMATE Sauce--all stunningly captured by James Beard award–winning photographer Jody Horton--was requested by, and 100 percent funded by, her loyal community.
Born and raised in Thailand, Jam Sanitchat hails from a family of skilled cooks. She moved to the United States to pursue a degree at the University of Texas, fell in love with Austin and the local food culture, and has fed the community ever since. Kim Lane is a former editor of the James Beard award–winning magazine Edible Austin a commentator for NPR's “All Things Considered,” and a contributor to various publications.