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Root of all goodness
Life, Sukhumaporn Laiyok, Published on 11/06/2013
» At first sight, it's tubular in shape and similar to a small potato. A closer look reveals the knobby skin of ginger or galangal root. When having a bite, there is a light, sweet flavour to it. On chewing it is slightly crunchy, reminiscent of water chestnuts and yam beans (mun kaew). When cooked it can be not only tasty but healthy as well.
Water world
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 12/04/2013
» The Northeast is parched and farmers are bearing the brunt of water scarcity at the height of summer.
Machine of his dreams
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 25/02/2013
» Without looking too hard, some might think the strikingly attractive car is an imported Jaguar, while others might mistake it for a Mustang. On closer inspection it becomes clear it is something else entirely. What they won't know is that the custom-made car is designed by its owner, Nitipat Praweenwongwuthi.
When you've passed your tipping point
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/01/2013
» Dateline Los Angeles. It is time for your favourite columnist to return to Thailand. I'm expecting a large contingent of waiters and valet parking attendants to be present at the departures gate at LAX. With the amount of money I have placed in their hands this past week, it's the least they can do.
Get going with guava's natural goodness
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 13/01/2013
» Guava is one of the best gifts presented by nature, according to a Korean company producing health and beauty products. I couldn't agree more. The US Department of Agriculture's handbook No8, which details the composition of foods, says the fruit is rich in vitamins A and B, calcium and iron, and contains five times more vitamin C than oranges, five times more fibre than apples, and more potassium than bananas. But there is one other reason why I think every backyard should have a guava tree: It is medicinal.
Melt into a chocolate rush
Life, Nikki Busuttil, Published on 26/12/2012
» Every chocolate lover's dream sits right on Rama 4 Road, in central Bangkok, as a tempting siren of indulgent calories, glorious unctuous fat and nutrient rich cacao, beckoning passersby into its velvety rich, uniquely decorated vices.Chocolab is cleverly at street eye-level, right next to the entrance of the chic, still relatively new Sofitel So Bangkok, and sets a proposition that is nigh-on impossible to refuse. All of its elements conspire to invite you in and keep you submissively captive, in its meltingly sensational choco-experimentation. Part cafe{aac}, part laboratory, all chocolate, Chocolab is a veritable chocolate cornucopia of the naughtiest, highly tempting kind.
Gardener, Heal thyself
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 02/12/2012
» Orawan Chomsri sent me a photo of the red ripe fruits of a plant she and her husband Rawat found growing on their land in Ratchaburi's Ban Pong district, when they visited recently. "I've never seen [the plant] before," she wrote, adding that it was a creeper known in Thai as mawaeng, a type of native aubergine.
Beer Park Life
Guru, Published on 23/11/2012
» We traipse the winter beer garden circuit in the name of research
The heady alchemy of oak and wine
Published on 17/10/2012
» It has to be one of the most serendipitous accidents of history.
Ties that bind
Life, Alfred Tha Hla, Published on 24/09/2012
» As a boy in a small farming community of 500 people in the US during the 1960s, David Reeck envisioned the People's Republic of China (PRC) as large and powerful. Often referred to as Red or Communist China during the Cold War, he grew up deeming it a threat to the US.