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As the site has grown to a fairly large size, we find ourselves updating a bit less frequently, although we do add content from time-to-time. One problem that we are running into is that virtually everything we post on the site ends up taken, without permission, and posted somewhere else on the web. It makes us hesitant to place too many of Kasma's recipes up, particularly the more delicious recipes that she is developing for a future book on street food. One of the strengths of the internet, of course, is the free exchange of ideas – but that should not mean taking someone's work and passing it off as your own! We all build on people who have gone before us – it behooves us to properly credit any information we use from someone else's site.

Featured Recipe

Roasted Chilli Paste (Nahm Prik Pow) – Make this delicious Thai chilli paste from scratch!

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A Seafood Culture – After rice, fish is the Thai people's favorite food. Read more here.

Featured Ingredient

Information on Roasted Chilli Paste (Nahm Prik Pow) .

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(Opens in new window.) The Urban Farmer Store is the best place we've found for getting a drip irrigation system going in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have classes to get you started and a great staff that will help you through the process. Highly recommended!

Snorkeling Photos

We have added some underwater photos Kasma took while snorkeling in Thailand this past year. See why our 28-day trip to Southern Thailand is so popular!

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Hortus Botanicus – see some pictures from Kasma's recent visit to a fabulous nursery in Ft. Bragg, California.

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(Opens in new window.) Hortus Botanicus is a nursery in Northern California with many wonderful plants. They have an excellent collection available for online ordering including many unique carnivorous plants.

Featured Recipe

Spicy Basil Chicken (Gkai Pad Gkaprow) – The quintessential Thai dish. Make it with nearly any meat or seafood. Yum!

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Some Important Heart Values – The "heart" culture of Thailand is one of the reasons we Westerners find the country so attractive.

Featured Ingredient

Thai Basil (Bai Horapa) – One of the distinguishing flavors and herbal tastes of Thai Cuisine.

Featured Websites

(Opens in new window.) We would like to highlight two websites, which represent organizations doing great work in one of the most important areas – ensuring equality for women. International Women's Partnership for Peace and Justice (IWP) is a spiritual based feminist organization working to support grassroot women's groups in South and southeast Asia. Their three core principles are feminism, social activism and spiritual practice. They offer trainings and workshops on a wide variety of topics including Leadership for Social Change, Buddhist Peacebuilding and Natural Building Workshops.

(Opens in new window.) Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking foundation supporting women's human rights organizations around the world working to address critical issues such as gaining economic independence, increasing girls' access to education and stopping violence against women.

Lahore Karahi

Find out about a wonderful Pakistani Restaurant in San Francisco !

Vitamin D!

Although not a specifically Thai issue, Vitamin D research indicates the importance of this Vitamin and links deficiency to various illnesses, including breast and prostate Cancer. We have printed John Cannell, MD's latest newsletter – full of interesting information everyone should know, especially doctors!

Thailand Trip Photos

We've added a number of photos for Kasma's 28-day trip to northern, central & southern Thailand. Get a sense of what the trips are like.

Kasma's Celebration Party

On Sunday June 26, Kasma invited all of her advanced students to a pot-luck party to celebrate twenty years of teaching Thai cooking.

New Look!

On June 8 we updated the color scheme.

Featured Recipe

NE-Style Spicy Minced Chicken Salad (Lahb Gkai) – The popular, fiery-hot salad from Northeastern Thailand.

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Buddha Images of NE Thailand – by Kasma's husband, Michael Babcock. Some images of the many Buddha statues in the NE of Thailand along with Michael's reflections.

Featured Ingredient

Roasted Rice Powder (Kao Kua) – One of the many Thai "secret ingredients" – this one used to help give the NE-Style salads called lahb, often transliterated as larp or larb, its distinctive flavor.

Just Added!

Coconut Information Links – This site has a wealth of information on coconuts, all available from this page.

Featured Website

(Opens in new window.) Crowworks Design is the website of an extremely talented sculptor and designer named Crow. Check out his Functional Sculpture page to see what is possible for a custom-designed and made fireplace, table, staircase or sculpture.

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Last Updated 18 June 2007.