Vegan sauce making resources?

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Hi All,

 

Can anyone recommend a good textbook on making sauces, in particular Thai and

Chinese sauces?

 

I've decided to do more cooking at home. Being vegan, the obvious thing is to

dump a whole pile of veggies in a stir-fry pan and cook them up. I know the

basics (mix up a little garlic and bean paste with vegetable broth and

cornstarch, or get a bunch of those sauce-in-an-envelopes from the supermarkets)

but need to know some more tricks, spice combinations, etc.

 

I've noticed that (despite the recession) so many nice little hole-in-the-wall

quick bite restaurants around town have recently jacked up their prices and/or

started serving rice plates that are 90% rice and 10% veggies w/tofu. Very

irritating. It's cheaper to cook my own stuff, in plentiful quantities.

 

Does anyone have opinions on the books " The Complete Book Of Sauces " (Williams)

or " The Book of Sauces " (Grimsdale/Degu)... are they easily vegan adaptable or

do most of their sauces require beef broth, eggs, etc? Not sure if they cover

non-Western sauces.

 

Thanks,

DG