Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #321357 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Synopsis
This handy field guide contains over 100 beautiful colour photographs and introduces over 40 different fruits commonly found in Asia. Each fruit is clearly presented, with a detailed description of each fruit including its country of origin and areas of growth. Culinary uses are also given, with helpful tips on how to produce the best flavours. This book is a must for lovers of tropical tastes.

Customer Reviews

Good Book for Beginners, but not enough
The book contains very good photos and descriptions of tropical fruits, ideal for the person travelling to tropical climates and wishing to have some basic background about fruits, or for anyone who is curious about tropical fruits. It also has a compact but very good selection of recipes of tropical fruit dishes.

However, the book does tend to be a bit too 'Asian' biased, in as much as the book deals with the encounters of the fruits by the author presumably whilst travelling through in Asia. Many of the fruits in the books are in fact Central and South American in origin, and the uses given to these fruits in those regions are not noted by the author.

From personal experience, Cashew Apples (Anacardium occidentale) tend to be found red, yellow or pink-ish in fairly equal distribution (at least in Panama), while the author claims the red variety is much more rare. Such might be the case in Asia.

Again, as a startup guide, this is a good book, but for the reader seeking more detailed information this may be not good enough.