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Like many Asian cuisines, Thai cooking is a throw-together-style of cooking
that allows much room for creativity. The foods in season and available
fresh at the marketplace are the important deciding factors of what will
appear on the dinner table. The special combination of herbs and spices used
in preparing Thai dishes is what gives Thai food its very distinctive
character. There are about 20 main herbs and spices which form the basis for
Thai cooking. Ginger, lemon grass, chilies, basil, cardamom, cinnamon, lime,
nutmeg, garlic... |
