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An Interview with My Mother

When my mother moved to America to marry my father, she brought with her Thai comfort food and a bright, unwavering smile. She is a woman who worries about her gray hair, and laughs almost too much. Wherever she goes she carries with her the idyllic air of Sridonmoon—the remote… Read More

Aloi: The Resourcefulness of the Northern Thai

In the 1940s, the first kaffir lime tree grown in the United States was found in a collection at the University of California. It had been smuggled into the country years earlier past government restrictions, and for many decades, Thai immigrants in the area drove in small groups to collect… Read More

Articles, Blogs, and Videos

As Northern Thai cuisine is a rarely-written subject in food writing, here are some resources I found that can point you in the right direction. Some of them concern food, and others concern the history of the cuisine and its traditions. Journal Articles Khun Tok Dinner: The transformation of a… Read More