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 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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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.
| Edition | Essentials | Expanded | CompleteFlagship |
|---|---|---|---|
| Countries | 11all eleven, minimum two recipes each | 11all eleven, proportionally represented | 11all eleven |
| Recipes | To be announced | To be announced | 100 |
| Sauces, sambals and pastes | To be announced | To be announced | 24 |
| Pantry studies | To be announced | To be announced | 27 |
| Extent | To be announced | To be announced | 452 pagesPrint edition. The Kindle edition is reflowable, so Amazon reports its own page count. |
| Intended reader | A 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. |
| Formats | To be announced | To be announced | Kindle edition, Paperback |
| Status | Coming soon | Coming soon | Kindle edition available; Paperback available |
| Price | To be announced | To be announced | Kindle 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.