The book

The Complete Edition

The whole collection in one volume — every recipe, every headnote, the foundations chapter, the regional menus and the full index.

The Southeast Asian Table, front cover: a laid table of dishes from across the region.

The Complete Edition

The Southeast Asian Table

Stories and Culinary Traditions from Eleven Countries.

  • 100recipes
  • 11countries
  • 452pages
  • 27pantry studies

The complete work: every recipe, every headnote, the foundations chapter, the regional menus and the full index.

Available from Amazon

  • Kindle edition$9.99 (Kindle Store price)available now
  • Paperback$49.99 (print list price)available now

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Side by side

What each edition carries

Only what has actually been settled appears below. Where an edition’s contents have not been chosen yet, it says so rather than guessing.

The three editions of The Southeast Asian Table compared by contents and status
EditionEssentialsExpandedCompleteFlagship
Countries11all eleven, minimum two recipes each11all eleven, proportionally represented11all eleven
RecipesTo be announcedTo be announced100
Sauces, sambals and pastesTo be announcedTo be announced24
Pantry studiesTo be announcedTo be announced27
ExtentTo be announcedTo be announced452 pagesPrint edition. The Kindle edition is reflowable, so Amazon reports its own page count.
Intended readerA cook meeting Southeast Asian cooking for the first time, who wants a real sense of the whole region rather than one country.A cook who already knows they want to cook this food regularly and wants depth without the full reference apparatus.A cook who wants the reference: the full research apparatus, the pantry studies, and all one hundred recipes.
FormatsTo be announcedTo be announcedKindle edition, Paperback
StatusComing soonComing soonKindle edition available; Paperback available
PriceTo be announcedTo be announcedKindle edition: $9.99 Kindle Store pricePaperback: $49.99 print list price

True of all three

  • Every one of the eleven countries appears in every edition, with a minimum of two recipes each.
  • The smaller editions are selections from the Complete Edition, not rewrites. A recipe that appears, appears in full.
  • The same testing disclosure, allergen and food-safety treatment, and AI-imagery disclosure in all three.

Essentials and Expanded are planned editions. Neither has been built, submitted to a retailer, priced or scheduled, and neither can be bought or pre-ordered. Their contents are not chosen yet, which is why this page says so rather than estimating.

Imagery is produced with generative AI tools and reviewed by the author. It is illustrative, not documentary photography. How these images were made.