Sweet and spicy — try a taste of Thailand
"... There are roots of all kinds, large and small; great chunks of taro used in so many ways, and excellent to make chips or crisps for cocktails; yams and bamboo shoots, beans from China, black beans and chick peas, winged beans which look as though they have flown
off the end of a dart; red and white beans, all are there. Garlic is sold in the market fresh or pickled in a mixture of vinegar, salt and a little sugar. The Thais like a sweet-sour flavour. There are chives and onions, shallots and spring (green) onions, a lemon grass which va-
guely resembles the onion, but has the flavour of the lemon bush. There are jelly mushrooms, fragrant mushrooms and just plain As for leaves, it needs a botanist or herbalist to understand the cooking of this country. Green leaves . and brown; they even
eat the flower of the begonia, and why not? There is a story of the princess who introduced a new flower to Thailand — it smelt good, it looked good, and for the Thais it also tasted good.” (From “Far Eastern Cookery,” by Robin Howe).
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Press, 3 February 1987, Page 10
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