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Thai red curry

In the back of my fridge is a slowly shrinking bag of green mush that I’ve been guarding jealously. It’s the remainders of the half-kilo of handmade green curry paste that we purchased from our favorite restaurant in Chiang Mai, longer ago than I should probably admit (OK, it was …

Cooking Thai in Israel: Galangal and turmeric enter the market

Traveling through Thailand in 2008, we fell in love with the cuisine — fresh vibrant vegetables prepared with an exotic array of spices. So exotic, in fact, that you couldn’t find them all here. Determined, I asked a few random Thai women at the Carmel Market where they found fresh …