Adventures in Thai Cooking
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Kasma Loha-unchit
Kasma Loha-unchit has taught Thai cooking classes in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1985. Born in 1950, she grew up in Thailand and learned the art of cooking from her mother. She moved to the Bay Area in 1972 and received her master's degree in business from the University of California at Berkeley. After working for many years as a marketing analyst, Kasma's interest in the healing professions led her to pursue studies in Western psychology, Oriental medicine and the practices of various spiritual traditions. These traditions inspired her to return to her cultural roots, and she chose cooking and working with people as her life's work.
Believing food to be inseparable from culture, in teaching Thai cooking Kasma encourages the discovery of the joys and the healing nature of working with food. Although she has taught all over the Bay Area, she especially loves to teach out of her home so that she can keep classes small and intimate and get to know her students. She has taught at Tante Marie's in San Francisco and appears on occasion at Ramkekins in Sonoma.
She personally organizes and leads tours to her homeland two to three times yearly. Her tours began at the encouragement of her cooking students who were enchanted by the stories she told of her homeland. The first year she literally learned on the job but she now has sixteen years of experience behind her at finding special places all over Thailand.
Kasma's first book is It Rains Fishes: Legends, Traditions and the Joys of Thai Cooking which was published in 1995 by Pomegranate Artbooks. It Rains Fishes received a Julia Child Cookbook Award in the international category in 1995. Her second book, Dancing Shrimp: Favorite Thai Recipes for Seafood, published by Simon & Schuster, appeared in Fall, 2000. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and two white doves . She is an avid gardener, both outdoor landscaping and indoor gardening, especially orchids, and is also an accomplished photographer.
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Even the birds eat spicy in Kasma's house!
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Text Copyright © 1995 Michael Babcock
& Kasma Loha-unchit.
Top photograph Copyright © 1994 Tony Burke of San Leandro,
California
Bottom photograph Copyright © 1996 Michael Babcock of Oakland, California
All material on this website is Copyright © 1995 to 2008 Kasma Loha-unchit. All rights reserved.
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Last Updated 24 August 2006.