Books
December, 2000
To us, nothing says the holidays like a coffee-table 10-pounder. But order too many and Rudolph gets a hernia. We did the heavy lifting for you by holding down the list to a handful of topics---food, automobiles, cartoons, adventure travel, exotica and sex (of course). Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia (Artisan) by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid presents more than 175 recipes from the Mekong delta, including jungle curry and Yunnan greens. But if Vietnamese cuisine...