[thechat] Recipe: Tom Yam Gai (Thai Hot n' Sour soup)

[Martin Burns]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Madhu Menon wrote:

> At 04:11 PM 08-01-03, Norman Beresford wrote:
> >The first is the
> >old style cook, personified by Deliah Smith.  They tend to be very specific
> >about amounts, stages etc.
>
>  From this page:
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789468085/
>
> "Delia Smith is a British phenomenon. Offering confidence-inspiring cooking
> instruction on TV and in print--more than 11 million copies of her books
> have sold--she's a U.K. culinary superstar known to cause national product
> shortages when she plugs ingredients."

True. Example - cranberries. She put a load of recipes in one
winter-themed cookbook, and sales rocketed (Cranberry based stuff seems to
be de rigeur these days at Christmas).

It helps that she's married to the MD of Sainsburys... Insider trading
anyone?

In her day, she was a revolutionary TV cook.

Cheers
Martin

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