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That Noodle Life

Soulful, Savory, Spicy, Slurpy
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That Noodle Life is a vibrant celebration of noodles by husband-and-wife team Stephanie and Mike Le, renowned for their popular food blog with 186K Instagram followers. This cookbook features 75 recipes that explore noodle dishes from Asia, Italy, and beyond, embracing a variety of shapes, flavours, and textures.

The book presents everything from comforting dishes like Really Savoury Sunday Sauce with Tagliatelle and French Onion Mac and Cheese to quick weeknight meals such as Flash-Fried Ribeye with Crispy Chow Mein, as well as elegant Date Night Noodles including Double Lobster Chitarra and Miso Clam Linguine. It also offers ways to upgrade instant noodles, instructions for homemade noodles, essential ingredient guides, and noodle etiquette tips.

Beautiful full-colour photography accompanies each dish, enhancing the lively and sophisticated presentation that invites readers to dive into the magical world of noodles.
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This book is ideal for food enthusiasts and home cooks who love noodles and wish to explore diverse, creative, and approachable recipes. Fans of Asian and Italian cuisines, as well as those interested in elevating quick meals and learning noodle-making techniques, will find it particularly engaging.

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The pleasure and joy of a bowlful of noodles! Here are 75 simple yet intensely flavoured recipes for noodles of all types, from Kung Pao noodles to Pappardelle with Rich Pork Ragu, from traditional ramen to kimchi mac and cheese, by the award-winning writers of i am a food blog.

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Oh, noodles! You’re so much fun. You’re so beloved! All your magical shapes, flavours, and textures. But no one obsesses over you quite like Mike Le and Stephanie Le, the husband-and-wife team who are superstars in the food blog world. Their humbly named i am a food blog boasts 186K followers on Instagram and receives 500K page views each month – and in it they profess their undying love for noodles in the most delicious, clever, and visually striking ways.

That Noodle Life is their 75-recipe celebration of the myriad pleasures of noodles. And let’s just say it goes way beyond spaghetti and ramen. Inspired by the noodle- and macaroni-crazed cuisines of Asia, Italy, and the global melting pot, they dish up high-impact, soulful, slurpable flavour with minimal fuss. Gorgeous full-colour photographs of every dish enhance the lively and sophisticated spreads.

Dig into comfort noodles: Really Savoury Sunday Sauce with Tagliatelle and French Onion Mac and Cheese. Quick weeknight noodles: Flash-Fried Ribeye with Crispy Chow Mein and Stay in Tonight Sesame Chili Oil Noodles – faster than takeout and far better. Sexy Date Night Noodles: Double Lobster Chitarra, Miso Clam Linguine, Bone Marrow and Beef Brisket Pho.

And how to upgrade instant noodles to make them shine, recipes for making noodles from scratch, notes on essential ingredients, and noodle etiquette, including how to use a ramen vending machine in Japan. Plus, who wouldn’t want to participate in the Lasagna Bracket Competition?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781523505326

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 April 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Workman Adult

Illustration: full-color photos throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 198.0mm

Height: 256.0mm

Weight: 1040g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Stephanie and Mike Le are the creators of the two-time Saveur-award-winning i am a food blog, which currently boasts 500,000 page views each month and 22 million page views since its inception in 2012. The writer-photographer team have 160,000 Instagram followers, contribute regularly to Conde Nast Traveler, Refinery29, Food52, and Shape, among others, and have been covered by PBS, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, Serious Eats, The Kitchn, Brit + Co, Eater, Buzzfeed, and more. They live in Vancouver, BC.

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