You guys are so making me hungry!
Two things I (we all?) Live for... good food and good sex. :-)
Great tips I'm picking up... Thanks.
Sushi from a street stall sounds delicious. It also sounds risky as hell. :-)
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You guys are so making me hungry!
Two things I (we all?) Live for... good food and good sex. :-)
Great tips I'm picking up... Thanks.
Sushi from a street stall sounds delicious. It also sounds risky as hell. :-)
Yes Bruce, exactly. after good food and good sex what is there? Nothing. Take me Buddah! Time to go!
Me too. Real Thai food is just too hot for me except in small doses.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaBoss
Unfortunately, moderization will some day replace the age-old farming traditions in Thailand where food laced with pesticides, insecticides, growth enhancers, etc. will replace organically grown crops, although progress (if one choses to call it that) is very slow.Quote:
Originally Posted by christianpfc
Many of the older farms in Isaan still grow and harvest crops organically, thus rendering approximately 25% of their crops as being unfit for market due to insect infestation. I know this very well, as I have spent many nights sitting around the campfires watching the women sorting chillies by hand separating the good ones (hard to the touch) from the rejects (soft to the touch) where insects have eaten their way through to the pulp of the chilli. Resourceful as Thais generally are nothing actually goes to waste. The reject pile left after a night of hand-sorting ends up being sun-dried, crushed into chilli powder, divided equally amoung the sorters, and then sold on the market as conforming product where a certain percentage of dead insects are permiited. Hey, just think about that extra boost of natural protein!!! I've observed the same sorting out of defective product in a broad range of organically grown crops including herbs and spices which are also on the insect food chain.
I read once where the earliest signs of agriculture on our planet have been traced back to none-other-than the Kingdon of Siam. Is it merely a coinsidence that the farmers with the most experience are the last ones to embrace modern farming - or could it be that they know more than the rest of us? Makes you wonder. Makes me wonder anyway.