Noodle

Shortlisted, Best Hard Cover Food Related Book, Australian Food Writers Awards 1999

Finalist, Best Hard Cover Recipe Book, World Food Media Awards 1999

What noodle is that? What do I do with it? Do I soak it? Can I fry it? On behalf of noodles everywhere, here lies salvation for the noodle-confused. From now on you will have The Right Noodle for the Right Recipe. You will be able to whip up your favourite Vietnamese noodle soup, Thai noodle salad, and peppery Sichuan noodle stir-fry without fear or confusion.

Mesmerising full-page photography provides foolproof noodle i-ds, linked with the low-down on how to prepare them, care for them and cook them.

Terry Durack tosses truffles and caviar to one side to declare his obsession with the world's most nutritious and nurturing food: the proud, brave, democratic people's noodle. I'm over the rare, the exotic, the extravagant, he claims. Noodles are the future.

In over 100 slippery, slurpy recipes Durack gives us the future in a bowl, from Cantonese wonton and noodle soup to Malaysia's famous curry laksa, to Korea's chap chae and even Indian sevian kheer dessert noodles.