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The Elements of Life: A Contemporary Guide to Thai Recipes and Traditions for Healthier Living | 
 enlarge | Author: Su-Mei Yu
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 200132
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 9.3 x 1
ISBN: 0471757071
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5593
EAN: 9780471757078
ASIN: 0471757071
Publication Date: October 5, 2009
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Product Description Discover the Thai approach to food and wellness-and use nature's elements to eat for optimum health, beauty, and spiritual well-being The traditional Thai philosophy of diet and health involves eating meals planned around your "home element"-earth, water, wind, or fire-as well as the weather, time of day, and other factors. In this book, award-winning author Su-Mei Yu explains this age-old philosophy and gives you information and recipes to help you prepare meals that will promote better physical, spiritual, and emotional health. She describes the personal characteristics related to the each of the four home elements, as well as the tastes, flavors, aromas, and natural ingredients best suited to them. She shows you how to identify your home element and eat foods that accommodate it through different times of the year and different times of the day. Beauty treatments geared to your home element will help you to relax, rejuvenate, and feel renewed. Recipe Excerpts from The Elements of Life 
Salad Rolls with Chicken, Mango, and Grilled Asparagus | 
Crispy Shrimp with Sweet and Sour Sauce | 
Shrimp and Thai Eggplant Salad | 
Cucumber, Papaya, and Chamomile Facial Mask |
Product Description
This beautifully designed book
- Includes an interactive wheel that helps you calculate your elemental sign
- Explains how to plan meals appropriate to your home element
- Offers tempting recipes for every home element, season, and time of day
- Shares dishes with a delicious variety of ingredients and flavors, from Cold Soba Noodles to Stir-Fried Chicken or Port with Watermelon Rind
- Contains beauty, mind, and spirit sections with recipes for face masks, hair treatments, and massage oils based on each home element
- Features more than 120 full-color photographs of finished dishes and life in Thailand
Written by the IACP Award–winning author of Cracking the Coconut and Asian Grilling, the simple, inspiring recipes and straightforward, easy-to-follow advice found in The Elements of Life will inspire you to live according to the elements and follow a traditional path to health, beauty, longevity, and inner peace.
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Elements of Life February 8, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
//The Elements of Life,//by San Diego chef and restaurateur Su-Mei Yu presents an exhaustive, and somewhat exhausting, guide to eating according to the Thai concept of home elements. The theory basically contends that the four elements of the universe-- earth, air, water and fire--are also found within each individual, with one element typically having a stronger presence. Once you identify your specific home element, you are then supposed to plan your diet around those foods that are most compatible with your element, as well as those which best balance out your vulnerabilities.
Confused? Understandably so. The concept is a bit complicated to grasp, and even though the recipes in the book are organized according to their corresponding element, the process of planning a meal can be downright daunting.
Don't be entirely put off, however. Even if the home element concept isn't for you, this is primarily just a cookbook containing dozens of authentic Thai recipes and lovely photographs. The pages are filled with fragrant soups, crunchy salads, stir fries, curries and refreshing desserts. Most of the recipes are surprisingly simple in technique and yield dishes with the delicious, vibrant flavors that you expect to find in Thai cuisine.
Reviewed by Andrea Rappaport
 Fascinating Exploration of Thai Recipes for Eating and Well-Being February 3, 2010
M. Hill (U.S.A.)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Elements of Life may look like a coffee table book, but it is so much more. It serves as a doorway into the Thai way of life and traditions. Follow the steps and the adventure begins. For the interested reader, this book enables an uncomplicated method of incorporating Thai recipes for food and health/well-being.
The first step is to use the included Elements of Life wheel to determine the reader's applicable Home Element. This step took only a couple of minutes. The elements are earth, water, wind and fire. An individual may have one or two home elements. Once the home element is determined, the Basics Chapter offers general guidance. Read that section first and then turn to the applicable home element chapter for specific guidance for eating and well-being. The entire process is fascinating and encompassing. After using the Elements of Life wheel my home element result was approximately 2/3 water and 1/3 earth. Both the water and earth chapters apply to me, with a stronger emphasis on water.
I first checked the Earth chapter. The contents include Food for Health, Hot weather recipes, Rainy weather recipes, a chart that incorporates the aromas and flavors of the element making it easy to see how to add items most beneficial to me in my cooking and life based on my home element(s). The Bliss section of the chapter offers advice to optimize physical being and includes recipes for facial masks, a foot rub, hair conditioner along with a section of special scents (like cedar, sandalwood, patchouli, juniper berry, etc.) that are complimentary, massage oils, sachets and finally traditional remedies for minor ailments. The Water and other home element chapters are similarly organized.
The book is lushly illustrated although every dish is not pictured. Not surprisingly, the user should be willing to search out specialty ingredients for the recipes. I prepared the Cambodian Salad with Chicken, Smoked Salmon, Mushroom and Arugula Salad, and Cool Rice Vermicelli with Grilled Shrimp, Fire-Roasted Anaheim Chile, and Sweet-Sour Sauce. The recipes were delicious and instructions clear.
This is much more than a cook book, it is an introduction to Thai traditions. The book is carefully crafted by Su-Mei Yu and her desire to share her wonderful culture with the reader is evident on each page. I treasure my copy of this beautiful book and recommend it to all.
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