Soups, noodles, curries, stir-fries, rice dishes - Asian food has been adopted by the West and it seems we can't get enough of it. Simple to prepare, clean tasting, and stylishly presented, it is the ideal food for home cooks who want great food with minimal effort. But Alastair brings much more than the food of Asia to your table - he brings extraordinary travel photography taken over many years too. Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Bali and India are all covered in this irresistible book. nnFood and Travels: Asia is an alluring record of Alastair's voyages of the East: driven by stomach, beauty, culture, magic and escape. The book is crammed full of intimate stories and sensitive images: from dawn starts, death-defying plane journeys, night-time swims in Thailand's jungle waterways, finding the fallen kingdom of Bagan in Burma and the morning wake-up calls by novice Monks in Laos. This book will be a delight for anyone who has a passion to travel and moreover a passion to eat. nnIn 2003 alone, Alastair Hendy has been voted World Best Food Journalist and World Best Food Photographers at the World Food Media Awards and shortlisted for Magazine Cookery Writer and Visual Work at the Glenfiddich Awards. He writes and photographs for numerous magazines around the world and for three years was The Sunday Times Style cook and food writer. His book Home Cook was published in March 2004.