When chef James Syhabout set out to write his new cookbook, Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots, he sampled a recipe that is not on most American dinner ...

"I started writing a Lao Isan cookbook because I needed to learn something deeper about my own heritage," says Syhabout. "Yeah, these dishes are all pretty much an homage to my past, and vehicles ...

Tharathip “Thip” Soulisak. When Yum Sະlut opened earlier this spring, Soulisak had already spent a decade serving Lao food around town — first from his backyard in West Hollywood and ...

Rather Syhabout’s first cookbook, “Hawker Fare: Stories and Recipes From a Refugee Chef’s Isan Thai and Lao Roots,” published recently by Anthony Bourdain’s imprint at Harper Collins ...

In his excellent 2019 cookbook, “Hawker Fare,” the Bay Area chef James Syhabout writes about how his Lao mother worked in a Thai restaurant when she arrived in the United States. Later ...

lots of lime juice and abundant use of fresh herbs set Lao cooking apart. Atlanta-based Lao American Ilene Rouamvongsor works as a recipe developer, food stylist and food educator, and ...

Lao food is slowly but surely gaining recognition ... As it happens, Vanmanivong’s grandmother grew up cooking. Her father had attended culinary school and he’d taught her how to make a ...

Snackboxe Bistro opened last month in Doraville, offering a rare taste of Lao cooking in an area where so many other styles of Asian and Southeast Asian food can be easily found. First-time ...