Cooking from the Heart: The Hmong Kitchen in America

"The first cookbook of Hmong-American cuisine, filled with unique recipes and stories Simple, earthy, fiery, and fresh, Hmong food is an exciting but still little-known South Asian cuisine. In traditional Hmong culture, dishes are created and replicatednot by exact measurements but by taste and experimentation--for every Hmong recipe, there are as many variations as there are Hmong cooks--and often served to large, communal groups. Sami Scripter and Sheng Yang have gathered more than 100 recipes from Hmong-American kitchens, illustrated them with color photos of completed dishes, and provided descriptions of unusual ingredients and cooking techniques"--

Sami Scripter, a retired educator, lives in Portland, Oregon.