Thai Pure and Simple: Cook Your Favorite Thai Dishes at Home

In Thai Pure & Simple, Somnuk "Sandy" Arpachinda shares the secrets that have made her the "mother of Thai cooking" in Michigan. This exciting new book presents recipes for dishes that have delighted thousands of regular customers to Sandy's restaurants in the northern suburbs of Detroit.

Presents more than one hundred recipes for the exotic, nutritious, and pleasing tastes of Thailand. And all recipes are customized for the home chef so they can be made simply and quickly with ingredients that are readily available.

Thai Pure & Simple also includes descriptions of Thai ingredients, tips on how to use them, and nuggets of advice from a restaurateur who is an outstanding chef in her own right. Plus you'll find insights into Thai traditions, legends, and history.

Somnuk "Sandy" Arpachinda and her husband, Montree, founded Bangkok Cuisine in 1983, introducing diners in metropolitan Detroit to the delights and taste thrills of Thai cuisine. Not only did Bangkok Cuisine become on the the most popular Thai restaurants in the Midwest, it spawned three additional Thai restaurants owned and managed by the Arpachinda family.

Sandy was born in Bangkok and learned Thai cooking in Thailand from master chefs.