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Tag Archives: papaya
Isaan-style papaya salads
Last night La and I presented to a lovely group of people at the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Culinary Literacy Center. For those of you who don’t know, the FLP has a teaching kitchen up on the 4th floor of … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, - Recipes, Thai/Lao food
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Tamarind pods, sweet and sour, and a sour soup with green papaya and salmon
Tamarind (or tamr hind “Indian date”–in other words, long cultivated throughout South Asia) is a key souring agent used in Southeast Asian cooking. I touched on this ingredient briefly in a prior post on Three essential Cambodian flavors. In that … Continue reading
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Asian Markets of Philadelphia 