The Elements of Life : A Contemporary Guide to Thai Recipes and Traditions for Healthier Living

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Earth, Water, Wind, Fire:

A Revolutionary Way to Use the Ancient Wisdom of Thai Philosophy in Your Kitchen, Your Home, Your Life "Discovering your home element will allow you to use your diet to achieve harmony with nature. With the information you gain by knowing your home element, you can adjust your menus in response to the weather, the season, the time of day, or how you feel for optimum health and emotional well-being. "Your home element has a spiritual dimension as well. To discover its presence is to discover your true self. To know your home element is to know your inner voice. This light of wisdom illuminates your way as you journey through ...

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Earth, Water, Wind, Fire:

A Revolutionary Way to Use the Ancient Wisdom of Thai Philosophy in Your Kitchen, Your Home, Your Life "Discovering your home element will allow you to use your diet to achieve harmony with nature. With the information you gain by knowing your home element, you can adjust your menus in response to the weather, the season, the time of day, or how you feel for optimum health and emotional well-being. "Your home element has a spiritual dimension as well. To discover its presence is to discover your true self. To know your home element is to know your inner voice. This light of wisdom illuminates your way as you journey through life. Its sustaining energy provides you with a sense of direction and fortifies you against life's problems. When you follow the path of your home

element and listen to your inner voice, you will be rewarded with a life of well-being and a state of physical and spiritual harmony that is called suk sabai: contentment, clarity, and happiness."
—Su-Mei Yu

"The Elements of Life offers a large vision of how a culture can integrate well-being, beauty, and superb taste into one's daily meals. Food as healing goes far beyond the dry, functional approach we're more accustomed to. This is a gorgeous, inspiring, and promising book."
—Deborah Madison, author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and What We Eat When We Eat Alone?

"The Elements of Life is more than a cookbook. It is at once scholarly, yet accessible, and groundbreaking in its recipes and intriguing stories about the Thai traditions of healing. Su-Mei Yu nourishes our bodies and spirit with her wisdom."
—Grace Young, author of The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen

"Imagine the greatest collection of mouthwatering recipes in one book. This is it. Su-Mei Yu is a miracle worker, and the ancient health wisdom she shares can and will change the way you eat forever."
—Deborah Szekely, founder of Rancho La Puerta and Golden Door "

A welcome and thoughtful introduction to the traditional Thai approach to food and health. Among the recipes, some traditional and others created by Su-Mei to suit North American kitchens and

palates, there are dishes to suit all temperaments in all seasons."
—Naomi Duguid, coauthor, with Jeffrey Alford, of Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia and Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Yu, author of Cracking the Coconut and chef/owner of the San Diego restaurant Saffron, explores the Thai approach to food and wellness in this unique and illuminating collection. Based on the belief that fresh, locally grown vegetables are natural remedies essential to maintaining good health), the book details the four elements of life: earth, wind, water and fire. To be healthy, all of our bodies' elements must be in harmony, which occurs through a diet that combines the most beneficial tastes, flavors and aromas of our element and allows for varying factors such as time of day and weather. Recipes help achieve this balance and are grouped together by element. Yu provides a wide array of options for each meal, including stir-fried shrimp with asparagus; cool rice vermicelli with grilled vegetables; noodles with Chinese broccoli and pork or chicken; and mango sorbet with young coconut ribbons. Headnotes list the ailments each dish will improve. Yu also includes recipes for facial masks, massage oils and sachets that calm the mind and the senses. An informative and appetizing look at Thai tradition and its relation to food, this book offers a new perspective on healthy eating. (Oct.)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780471757078
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/12/2009
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 573,211
  • Product dimensions: 9.30 (w) x 10.10 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Su-Mei Yu was born in Thailand to Chinese parents and lived there until she was fifteen, when she was sent to boarding school in the United States. After stints as a social worker and an assistant professor, in 1985 she opened Saffron, the first Thai restaurant in San Diego, which has received national acclaim. Yu writes frequently for food magazines including Food & Wine, Fine Cooking, and Gastronomica. Also the author of Asian Grilling and the IACP Award–winning cookbook Cracking the Coconut, she lives in La Jolla, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire: Finding Your Home Element.

Chapter 2: Basics.

Chapter 3: Earth.

Chapter 4: Water.

Chapter 5: Wind.

Chapter 6: Fire.

Resources.

Index.

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  • Posted January 14, 2011

    My favorite cookbook of my collection

    This cookbook holds many recipes to be treasured from curries, soups, salads, dressings and desserts. I have a giant collection of very special Asian cookbooks and this is my favorite for many reasons. Number one, the food tastes so amazing and so authentic. Number two, all of the recipes are healthy, utilizing mother earth's gifts to their fullest. I am vegetarian and though there are many meat and fish recipes within this book, the author kindly respects all diet choices by offering vegetarian substitutions for every recipe! Number three, I love curries and I have collected Asian cookbooks for this reason. This book has my favorite curry recipes. Number four, the book is based upon a Thai belief system that we all have our own inner element and that our diet should reflect the needs of our spirit through tastes, color and temperature, as well as work in accordance with the weather around us. Therefore, this book provides recipes that allows one to connect with their food in new way and soothe them on the deepest levels, nourishing not only the taste buds but the spirit. A particular recipe I adore is the Restorative Soup which is what I eat whenever I get sick. So comforting and makes the sickness go away! Number five, the author grew up eating this cuisine and then made it for her family, now wanting to share the recipes and the healing techniques of this Thai element tradition with the world. This makes the book full of so much love; you can just feel it in the book! Su-Mei Yu, you are awesome and I love your cookbook. It is truly the best gift I ever gave to myself, my body and my spirit! Thank you.

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