Street Food: Recreating the World's most authentic tastes - Tapa dura

Recreate the world's most exciting snacks Have you ever visited a bustling market abroad, discovered a freshly cooked, local delicacy, and thought `I'd love to make that at home'? Tom Kime's world tour of fantastic food shows how to bring exotic flavours into your kitchen. Take your tastebuds on a global adventure and cook up 90 easy-to-follow recipes, from Chilean seafood empanadas to Moroccan hira bean soup. Pick up local cooking tips and techniques, and follow inspirational ideas for mixing a variety of dishes including fritters, mezze, tapas and kebabs, so you can serve up a truly global street food experience. Evocative, exotic and above all delicious, street food stirs, sizzles and surprises. Tom Kime develops a taste for street food on his own doorrstep - on thestreets of Southall's Indian community. He then travels around theworld to countries renowned for their street food - Mexico, theLebanon, Malta, Vietnam. Back home he writes up the recipes to recreatethe authentic tastes of his travels, using ingredients readilyavailable here. Evocative narrative alongside each recipe recalls Tom'stravels and where he tried each dish. He leaves you yearning - eitherto follow in his footsteps, or to start creating and eating his exoticofferings here - in your own kitchen..

Tom Kime cut his catering teeth with Rick Stein, and worked at the River Cafe with Jamie Oliver (he cooked at Jamie's wedding). Now a private chef and food consultant, Tom has opened Food at The Muse in Notting Hill, and writes for BBC's Good Food Magazine, Olive, and Waitrose Food Illustrated. His first book, Exploring Taste and Flavour, was published in 2005.