Cooking from the Heart: The Hmong Kitchen in America (Sami Scripter and Sheng Yang)

The first modern cookbook of Hmong-American cuisine, filled with unique recipes and stories. In traditional Hmong culture, dishes are created and replicated not by exact measurements but by taste and experimentation - for every Hmong recipe, there are as many variations as there are Hmong cooks - and often served to large, communal groups.

Sami Scripter and Sheng Yang have gathered more than 100 recipes from Hmong-American kitchens, illustrated them with color photos of completed dishes, and provided descriptions of unusual ingredients and cooking techniques.