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The year of the durian
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 11/06/2021
» Meet Lindsay Gasik, durian hunter and fanatic. Gasik is the face behind the Year of the Durian blog and the author of The Durian Tourist's Guide To Thailand, a comprehensive travel guide to indulging in Southeast Asia's King of Fruit.
From seedling to bar
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 22/06/2018
» MarkRin Chocolate was born out of the love for chocolate by Assoc Prof Dr Sanh and his wife Kanokked "Thip" La-Ongsri, who also created it as a long-term research project in Chiang Mai. Sanh found that the agricultural geography of Thailand qualified for planting cacao trees. The first cacao plant in Chiang Mai, Sanh crossed two cacao varieties and created his own hybrid called "I.M.1". He and Thip formed MarkRin Farms, to support and form a cooperative, so cacao farmers have a stable occupation since cacao is a monocrop and intercrop. Sanh and Thip also studied and researched cocoa beans fermentation together to develop chocolate from premium quality dried beans.