Author: Nongkran Daks
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Keywords: minutes, learn, cook, series, meals, delicious, cooking, made, easy, wok
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 079460496X
ISBN-13: 9780794604967

Wok cooking is a simple, quick, nutritionally balanced way toward consistently great tasting food. Wok Cooking Made Easy is a terrific guide to spontaneous improvisation and creative innovation in your cooking, and leaves plenty of leeway for substituting ingredients and easily preparing a tasty, nutritional meal in a single dish.

Authors:Tony Wheeler, Maureen Wheeler,
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Keywords: story, planet, lonely, destinations, unlikely
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0794605230
ISBN-13: 9780794605230

Founders of the phenomenally successful publishing company Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler have produced travel guides to just about every corner of the globe.Lonely Planet Publications was born in 1973 when the Wheelers self-published a quirky travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. This was quickly followed by what soon became the backpackers’ bible, South-East Asia on a Shoestring. Going boldly where no other travel publisher had ventured, they catered to a new generation of independent, budget-conscious travelers long before the advent of mass tourism.Unlikely Destinations: T

Authors:Christophe Megel, Anton Kilayko, Alain Ducasse, Edmon
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Keywords: flavors, bites, small, tapas, asian
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0794603149
ISBN-13: 9780794603144

Using an abundance of the fresh, seasonal ingredients and a harmony of flavors, Anton Kilayko and executive chef Christophe Megel offer a collection of recipes that will excite anyone yearning after new and delicious ways to approach the tastes of the East. Cultural lines blur as they explore the breadth of Asian cuisine to bring you dishes inspired by the cooks of Bali, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, and many more. The food is imaginative, approachable and can just as successfully be brought to life at a sophisticated dinner, a lazy lunch, or a cool party—or very simply as a tasty litt

Authors:Periplus, Periplus Editors,
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Keywords: map, travel, china
Number of Pages: 2
Published: 2008-01-06
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0794605478
ISBN-13: 9780794605476

Folded paper map representing The Peoples Republic Of China. Shaded relief of the physical landscape gives a good idea of the areas’ topography. Covers most of Eastern Asia from Jammu and Kashmir in the west to the East China sea, and from Mongolia in the north to Laos in the south. Also shows in their entirety the bordering countries of North and South Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Tibet. Insets of Beijing, Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta areas. Reverse shows fairly detailed insets of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hengzhou andBeijing. Legend in German, English, French

Authors:Takashi Sugimoto, Marcia Iwatate, Charlie Trotter, Ma
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Keywords: cuisine, japanese, new, shunju
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-08-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 079460448X
ISBN-13: 9780794604486

Shunju: New Japanese Cuisine takes you on a tour of the restaurants and philosophy at the forefront of Japan’s cooking revolution. Just as Alice Waters changed the way Americans thought about food, Takashi Sugimoto has revolutionized the act of dining in Japan.

Author: Geoffrey London
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Keywords: century, houses
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-02
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0794601995
ISBN-13: 9780794601997

Author: Bill Bensley
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Keywords: design, bensley, studios, resorts, residences, tropical, paradise
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0794604935
ISBN-13: 9780794604936

Eclectic, baroque and sophisticatedùsuch are the characteristics of the lifestyle resorts and extravagant private residences crafted by the renowned Bensley Design Studios in Bangkok and Bali. The 27 resorts and homes featured in Paradise by Design are set amidst resplendent tropical gardens and spread from China to India to Bali. Focused in Asia Pacific, these buildings are unconventional, sensual and hold a special reverence for the tropical climate. Focusing not only on the architecture of the buildings, but also the landscape design, interior design, horticulture and fine arts and crafts