Humanities & Social Sciences
TASTE ASEAN
by Fat-Fat Tree, JUIMIN WANG
From the title “Taste ASEAN” and the cover of this book, you can guess that it’s a guide of Southeast Asian cuisine and an illustrated book about spices, fruits and vegetables in ASEAN. The first part of the book introduces the history and culture of Southeast Asian countries through the characteristics of food and the relationship between these countries and Taiwan. The second part is about how the markets and settlements of Southeast Asian form and develop in Taiwan with their own special features, and also the records of the fieldwork by the author in these places. Each article will introduce several spices, fruits and vegetables of Southeast Asian, and more than 100 kinds of plants will be introduced. The cover with a map on it is composed by plotter pen and rendering a part of block with pink color presents spicy and yellow color presents sour. The author tries to make the association of the taste of the food in Southeast Asian with these different colors. The color of the cover, gray-green symbolizes that Southeast Asia is the union of natural ecology and historical sites, and also shows the mystery of it. The horizontal cover with the straight text which makes all the readers must rotate the book is a call from the author. Let’s change the viewpoints on Southeast Asia! Open the book, and let’s Taste ASEAN.
