Fall | Winter 2020

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Chef Jam Sanitchat delivers a charming love letter in the form of a cookbook to the Austin community she has embraced, supported, and fed since 2008

Thai Fresh

Beloved Recipes from a South Austin Icon JA M SANI T CHAT AND KIM L ANE, W I T H PHO T OS BY JODY HOR T ON

JAM SAN I T C H AT Austin, Texas Born and raised in Thailand, Sanitchat hails from a family of skilled cooks. She moved to the United States to pursue a degree at the University of Texas, fell in love with Austin and the local food culture, and has fed the community ever since.

KIM LAN E Austin, Texas Kim Lane is a former editor of the James Beard award–winning magazine Edible Austin, a commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and a contributor to various publications.

J ODY HORT ON Austin, Texas

Found within the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Bouldin Creek is Thai Fresh, a gluten-free bakery, coffeehouse, vegan ice cream mecca, and, most importantly, Thai restaurant and learning center. Chef Jam Sanitchat built this culinary complex and teaching space piece by piece by expanding into neighboring spaces, forging relationships with local growers and producers, and adding new facets to her culinary repertoire as time and money allowed. The result is a wildly successful amalgam of food, beverages, and services that probably shouldn’t work together but somehow does. Thai Fresh is the roadmap to that success. Follow Jam from her early days of cooking for friends during graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, to her popular farmers market stand, to her current establishment. Along the way, she taught thousands of people the art of cooking Thai cuisine, and fed eager crowds at countless cultural and community events. Discover why this collection of Jam’s top-selling and most sought-after recipes, like ThaiStyle Chicken and Waffle and The ULTIMATE Sauce—all stunningly captured by James Beard award–winning photographer Jody Horton—was requested by, and 100 percent funded by, her loyal community.

Jody Horton is an award-winning food and lifestyle photographer.

rel ease dat e | september 8.25 x 10.25 inches, 224 pages, 101 color photos

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ISBN 978-1-4773-2222-2 $35.00 | £27.99 | C$52.50 hardcover

Grandmother’s favorite—Hor Mok, Steamed Red Curry Fish Custard.

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