| 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... |
