Here is a fun primer on Thai food that I found.
It is truly one of my favorite cuisines for the fresh, balanced, flavors, the plethora of vegetables, and the ability to easily make most recipes vegan!!!
Please share any experiences you've had with Thai food, any recipes, or ingredient!
My favorite ingrediant often used in Thai is Galangal Root, whose taste can be described as The rhizome has a pungent smell and strong taste reminiscent of black pepper and pine needles.
Thai food is great. I've been there a couple of times and it's one of my favorite cuisines.
Please suggest cuisines for next month's (March) monthly thread, in replies to this comment. Highest voted comment gets it.
I'd love to learn more about some South American cuisine, but I don't know enough about it to pick a specific country.
Peru!
In Peru we have...
- 4000 varieties of potatoes
- quinoa
- choclo, a large kernel variety of field corn that is often eaten toasted and salted
- ceviche everywhere
- Chifa, or Peruvian-Chinese cuisine, such as Lomo Saltado
- Cuy (sorry vegetarians)
- a variety of alcoholic drinks, such as chicha and pisco sour (which can be turned into a coca sour by using the coca leaf)
- and Inca Kola, such a popular soft drink that it beat out Coke for the Peruvian market
