{"id":20047,"date":"2018-04-25T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T10:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20047"},"modified":"2024-01-11T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T12:55:11","slug":"the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook","title":{"rendered":"The Little Viet Kitchen Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I just wanted to write a quick blog as we received a\u00a0very exciting little package in the post&#8230;\u00a0The Little Viet Kitchen&#8217;s very first cookbook! Now, I love Vietnamese food and The Little Viet Kitchen&#8217;s creations in particular, but this wasn&#8217;t the only reason I was so thrilled to receive a copy. You may recognise the kitchen in the background&#8230; the pale tongue and groove panelling and brass hanging rail laden with copper pans. Yep, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/kitchens\/classic-bespoke-kitchen\/st-johns-square-showroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. John&#8217;s Square showroom<\/a> is now on the front of a cookbook!<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"sharer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-1.jpg\" alt=\"LVK-Book_deVOL-1\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-1-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><ul id=\"socialshare\"><!--<li class=\"fb\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=688330137993706&display=popup&href=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook?img=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"tw\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook&text=The Little Viet Kitchen Cookbook\"><\/a><li>--><li class=\"pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?&url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook&media=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-1.jpg\"><\/a><li><\/ul><\/div><br \/>\n<em>The front cover featuring our fabulous St. John&#8217;s Square showroom<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;ve seen our\u00a0kitchens in lots of magazines but there&#8217;s something quite special about a book, you keep the good ones for years. My mum has even\u00a0handed down cookbooks that were given to her by her mum. I treasure these slightly battered old books more than a lot of my most\u00a0expensive possessions. There are so many recipes online but there&#8217;s\u00a0nothing quite like flicking through\u00a0beautiful pages stained with little splashes of past ingredients and the joy of reading someone&#8217;s story and being inspired by beautiful imagery&#8230; especially if there&#8217;s a deVOL Kitchen in there too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of last year the\u00a0owner and brilliantly talented chef of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittlevietkitchen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Little Viet Kitchen<\/a>, Thuy, got in touch as she had fallen in love with our pink, green and blue St. John&#8217;s Square showroom and was wondering if she would be able to shoot the cover of her book here. We&#8217;ve been big fans of this cute London restaurant\u00a0for a couple of years now, it&#8217;s only about a 10 minute walk from our Tysoe Street showroom on the corner of Chapel Market in Islington, London. I actually went for my birthday when I first came to London back in 2015. I wrote a blog at the time because I was so amazed at the incredible flavours that were coming out of this tiny kitchen. We don&#8217;t usually do photoshoots here as the showroom is always so busy with design appointments but as a one-off we decided to help out and hand over the showroom for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was actually the day of the red sun&#8230; remember when the whole sky\u00a0turned a gloomy red and for the afternoon it felt like you were on some faraway desert planet in Star Wars?! Not the ideal conditions for taking photographs but luckily Thuy had legendary food photographer, David Loftus, who has worked with some of the most loved names in the culinary world including his pal Jamie Oliver.\u00a0 Somehow David managed to work his magic and took some gorgeous shots of Thuy and her team pottering around\u00a0our Classic kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"sharer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"LVK-Book_deVOL-2\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-2-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-2-1-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><ul id=\"socialshare\"><!--<li class=\"fb\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=688330137993706&display=popup&href=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook?img=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-2-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"tw\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook&text=The Little Viet Kitchen Cookbook\"><\/a><li>--><li class=\"pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?&url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook&media=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-2-1.jpg\"><\/a><li><\/ul><\/div><br \/>\n<em>Thuy and her dad prepping all the fresh ingredients in our showroom<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thuy decided to bring her family along to the shoot too, they were such an inspiration to her that she thought it\u00a0was only right that they were a part of this too. When I was chatting to her before the shoot she\u00a0told me the story of her dad who had travelled to England after the Vietnam\u00a0War, risking his own life at sea, to try to find a better life for his family, memories from her grandparents&#8217; farm and her mother&#8217;s home cooking. I won&#8217;t attempt to recount her life story, I&#8217;ll leave that to Thuy, but it was fascinating to\u00a0hear about the roots of her passion and listen to tales from a\u00a0childhood that was quite different from my own. There are some adorable old family photos in the book but this is probably my favourite, maybe for the caption alone: <em>My big sister M\u1ef9 H\u1ea1nh and me in our New Years outfits, made by mum, with our brand new shoes! We don&#8217;t look happy but I promise we were over the moon, if not just a little scared of the big man with the camera, 1986, C\u1eabu Ngang, Vietnam.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"sharer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-3.jpg\" alt=\"LVK-Book_deVOL-3\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-3.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-3-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><ul id=\"socialshare\"><!--<li class=\"fb\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=688330137993706&display=popup&href=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook?img=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-3.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"tw\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook&text=The Little Viet Kitchen Cookbook\"><\/a><li>--><li class=\"pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?&url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-little-viet-kitchen-cookbook&media=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LVK-Book_deVOL-3.jpg\"><\/a><li><\/ul><\/div><br \/>\n<em>A sneak peek inside Thuy&#8217;s book with old family photographs from Vietnam<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are giving away a very special signed copy on our Instagram! If you&#8217;d like to have a go at these delicious recipes and read Thuy&#8217;s wonderful story, there&#8217;s still time to enter!\u00a0You just need to leave a comment on the post before 1pm today (Wednesday 25th April) and we will choose someone at random to send this very special edition to. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bh8_7gTFtW-\/?taken-by=devolkitchens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to see the post.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Little Viet Kitchen Cookbook is now on sale and you can order a copy <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bloomsbury.com\/uk\/the-little-viet-kitchen-9781472936035\/?utm_source=Adestra&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=The%20Little%20Viet%20Kitchen&amp;utm_campaign=UK%20Bloomsbury%20Cooks%2019%2004%202018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/em> at a discounted online price.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Thuy, Bloomsbury Publishing and Absolute Press for sending us a copy to share with our followers and a copy for the showroom&#8230; I can&#8217;t wait to get cooking!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to write a quick blog as we received a\u00a0very exciting little package in the post&#8230;\u00a0The Little Viet Kitchen&#8217;s very first cookbook!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":20105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20047"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25072,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20047\/revisions\/25072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}