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Cooking and celebrating Thai-style

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April 17th 2011
Since Russell and I are both keen cooks, we decided to do a one-day Thai cooking course at Apple's Retreat, a nearby guesthouse with a modern cooking classroom attached. Despite the dishes chosen being virtually identical to the course I did previously in Chang Rai, I still learnt a lot. Our teacher was a lady called Apple (apparently not the Apple of guesthouse name), an excellent cook who ta ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more