Corinne Trang

Press

“Trang’s food can be chili hot, lettuce mild, caramel sweet, lime sour, crusty crisp, starchy mushy; an a cappella aria of a primary ingredient of a funky, mysterious pastiche. It may be several of these things at once. It is never timid.”

~ The New York Times

“She is the Julia Child of Asian cuisine.”

~ The Washington Post

“Trang shows an instructional bent in explaining ingredients, techniques, and how the cuisines evolved.”

~ The Atlanta Journal

“The Asian Julia Child… Poised to join their [The Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion Cunningtham…and Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child] ranks, the newly released Essentials of Asian Cuisine: Fundamentals and Favorite Recipes by Corinne Trang has already created buzz. Encyclopedic in range and content… The volume’s appendix includes both educational and practical information. A tour of food rituals…rounds out the book’s scholarly base.”

~ Chronogram

“This book [Essentials of Asian Cuisine] is a masterpiece”

~ Lynne Rosetto Kasper, The Splendid Table, NPR radio

“This is an inspiring collection of adventurous recipes that highlight Trang’s ingenious method of marrying eastern and western flavors.”

~ Martin Yan TV host, Yan Can Cook

“Trang has done an impressive job of conveying the heart and soul of sometimes vastly different Asian foods.”

~ Winston-Salem Journal

“Corinne tackles the vast category of Asian noodles with her usual grace and skill. You can tell each recipe comes from where the best Asian cooking comes from – the heart.”

~ Ming Tsai, host, Simply Ming

“Corinne Trang’s cookbooks are a joy for the senses, and have helped to bring Asian cuisine into countless kitchens and dining rooms across America—including ours. We can’t wait to light up the grill, open a bottle of wine, and start to cook mouth-watering recipes like her miso-marinated mackerel and classic Vietnamese grilled pork sandwich from this enticing book!”

~ Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page, James Beard Award-winning authors of Becoming a Chef, Culinary Artistry, and The New American Chef

“Corinne Trang is one of America’s leading authorities on Asian flavors, and her latest book Noodles Every Day makes our mouths water. Her tone is so inviting and approachable that a wider audience is bound to discover the pleasures of preparing and enjoying Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese and other noodle dishes through this wonderful book.”

~ Karen Page & Andrew Dornenburg, authors, The Flavor Bible

“…Corinne Trang, the most gracious of culinary diplomats, with a book’s worth of recipes from the other side of the world, all of them starring the humble and versatile noodle…West meets East. You’ll be glad you did.”

~ Sara Moulton, host Sara’s Weeknight Meals, and Executive Chef, Gourmet Magazine

“This wonderful book traces the journey of curries from India throughout Southeast Asia and beyond…The tight-focused photography adds its own mouthwatering appeal.”

~ The Seattle Times

“This…tome [Essentials of Asian Cuisine] sets out to establish, and ultimately succeeds in laying, the foundations for authentic Asian cooking. …Trang has created a book that is accessible to Western audiences of varying levels of cooking experience…Yum.”

~ The Harvard Book Review

“Trang organizes the whole of Asian cooking by grouping together similar dishes that highlight the common elements as well as the variations.”

~ The Cincinnati Enquirer

“Trang draws upon her experiences to create this wide-ranging compendium of recipes for flavorful dishes…simple to make menus consisting of one grilled food served alongside…simple-to-prepare dishes. From condiments to breads, vegetables to meats, no food group goes un-adressed. A simple, elegant layout boosts readability. ”

~ Publishers Weekly’s