Thai Cookbook

Can anyone recommend a great Thai Cookbook? I am looking for something authentic or healthy style, the most important aspect is that it is yummy and has pictures.

Thanks

For Thai food, I like Nancie McDermott. I have both Real Thai and Real Vegetarian Thai. Both have delicious recipes that are straight-forward enough for everyday cooking.

I second the vote for Nancie McDermott's Real Thai. We were looking every where for a good sticky rice recipe until we found it.

does it have pictures?

No--not really.

I know that Nancie McDermott does delicious recipes for Thai and those are the only Thai books I have. I also know that she has a book out called Quick and Easy Thai. That may be more what you are looking for--it has the big pictures. Check it out at Amazon--they let you do that "look inside" feature. I haven't used that cookbook, but, as I said, I like her other two.

Here's the Amazon location:

http://www.amazon.com/Quick-Easy-Thai-Everyday-Recipes/dp/0811837319/ref=sr_1_1/...

thanks!

I have just found that books with pictures are more likely to inspire me. Well, cookbooks anyway :)

I like Cracking the Coconut (http://www.librarything.com/work/92886/) and Thai Home Cooking (http://www.librarything.com/work/1220501) but they are bit sad on the picture front. "Cracking" has a section of photos, but of only a few select dishes. Thai Home Cooking is one of the most "authentic" that I have found so far. That means that the recipes are often difficult and call for a lot of special ingredients. I like that it has recipes for all of the types of curry pastes...

A couple thoughts:

True Thai by Victor Sodsook is a "high-end" (meaning beautifully produced, expensive) hardback. Pictures. Excellent recipes, easy to follow (if occasionally lengthy), and delicious stuff.

Two pan-Asian books that include Thai and from which I have successfully made many things:

Southeast Asia Cookbook by Ruth Law

and

Essentials of Asian Cuisine by Corinne Trang

Finally, though I do not own it, I have had Jennifer Brennan's The Original Thai Cookbook highly recommended to me by someone I trust completely.

I do like True Thai by Victor Sodsook and Real Thai by Nancie McDermott, but my two favorite Thai cookbooks are Practical Thai Cooking by Puangkram C. Schmitz and Thailand, the beautiful cookbook by Panurat Poladitmontri.

The Schmitz book has wonderful recipes, beautifully presented, but few or no photos. The Poladitmontri book is coffee-table format with magnificent photos of both Thailand and the food, and the recipes are top-notch as well.