Two Really Good Cookbooks For Cooking Vietnamese Food At Home

Last month’s #FoodAndLit challenge on Litsy was to cook and read from Vietnam. Vietnamese food is one of my favorite things to eat, but I had never cooked much of it at home before. My first stop was the library to pick up some cookbooks. They supplied me with two good ones: Vietnamese Food Any Day by Andrea Nguyen and Vietnamese Home Cooking by Charles Phan.

I started small with Vietnamese Iced Coffee, but quickly expanded to dinner. We loved Hoisin Chicken and Sweet Potatoes from Vietnamese Food Any Day, and had fun spending two days making Pho from Vietnamese Home Cooking. Both recipes were easy to follow, and the results were delicious. I highly recommend both of them.

Of course while I was cooking I was also listening to an audiobook about Vietnam. I chose The Sympathizer by Viet Thahn Ngoyen. This book was illuminating and darkly funny, and I could see why it won the Pulitzer.

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