Spice Up Your Life: A Thai Cookbook

A culinary guide to Thai cuisine, as well as a starting point from which you can add your own flair and innovations. Spice Up Your Life is about bringing together the essence of Thai cooking and ingredients that can easily be found in Asian supermarkets (in Western World) in creating traditional Thai dishes or Thai dishes with a twist. All recipes in the book are inspired by the real menu items that the author created for her award-wining restaurant in Southern California.
Customer Review: Just like the restaurant!
If you've ever eaten at Amarin Thai in Mira Mesa, San Diego you know how good the food is. I've eaten a lot of Thai food and have never found a place that made curry with as much depth of flavor. I moved away from San Diego a couple of years ago, but recently traveled back for a visit and stopped by Amarin. I was so happy to see the owner/chef had written a cookbook! The cookbook doesn't have millions of recipes, but it doesn't need that many. If you've eaten at the restaurant, the book hits most of the most popular dishes and even though the measurements are metric and the instructions oversimplified, it was pretty easy to come out with a tasty final product. I am no longer searching around for Thai restaurants that can cut the mustard. Instead, I just triple the curry paste recipes, throw the paste in a jar and with a little coconut milk it's like I'm right back in San Diego at my favorite Thai restaurant.

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White tea benefits come from young tea leaves that are picked before the buds have fully opened. The buds are covered with silver fuzz that turns white when they are steamed and dried -- hence the name: white tea.

White Tea Shown To Have Stronger Antioxidant Properties Than Other Teas

While the tea has been around for thousands of years in Asia, scientists have only recently found that white tea benefits are linked to stronger antioxidant properties than other teas.

The demand for white tea has soared since the release of early-stage research suggesting white tea benefits a bevy of health-related concerns and includes properties that boost immune systems, prevent dental plaque, provide colon cancer protection, and guard against skin cell damage.

This suggests that white tea potentially can be used to treat some forms of skin cancer and serve as an agent in cosmetics to protect against signs of aging from damaged skin.

Tea connoisseurs find white tea varieties delicate and sweet, with little or no grassy taste that is sometimes noted in green and black varieties.

An article published in the Carcinogenesis journal by scientists from the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University found that consumption of moderate amounts of white or green tea may hedge against colon tumors consistent with the prescription drug, sulindac.

Rather than being air-dried, white tea leaves undergo less processing and are steamed. This process keeps the leaves closer to their natural state and increases the teas anti-oxidant properties.

A 1984 study at Pace University revealed that white tea extract may help slow viruses and bacterial growth, thus reducing the incidence of staphylococcus and streptococcus infections, pneumonia, fungus growth, and even dental plaque.