Beyond Community Cookbooks

Many of you might not know it, but in addition to our community cookbooks, Favorite Recipes Press produces many commercial books, as well. FRP has produced books for Publix Supermarkets, Kroger, Central Market, Mohegan Sun Resort, LuBerge D’Lac Resort and Casino, and The Melting Pot Fondue Restaurants. Many of these entities develop books to build their brand, and, in some cases, support a non-profit.

One very interesting cookbook which we had the pleasure of producing last year was Southeast Asian Flavors by Robert Danhi. Robert is a distinguished and Award Winning Chef who teaches Southeast Asian cooking and travels extensively to Southeast Asia regularly.

Robert’s love of this cuisine was developed after he met his wife Estrellita Leong while taking classes at El Camino Community College in Los Angeles. After taking a trip to her homeland in Malaysia, Robert’s passion for all things Southeast Asian exploded. One of Robert’s main objectives in his Southeast Asian Flavors was to demystify Southeast Asian cuisine for home cooks.
This gorgeous, 400 page coffee table cookbook takes the reader on a cooking adventure through Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. It is loaded with beautiful photographs of both the food and the culture.

Chef Danhi was recently featured in Fine Cooking magazine where they highlighted his Tea-Smoked Duck. Southeast Asian Flavors will motivate and inspire you to try exotic dishes and flavors that you never dreamed of. Chef Danhi not only shares great recipes, but teaches us how and why ingredients work together—this is as great a read as it is a cookbook.