BANGKOK: Spoilt by more than 25 years of supermarkets and pre-packaged foods, Thais, it seems, have become “food illiterate”. That’s according to Duangporn “Bo” Songvisava and Kingkorn Narinkul na Ayutthaya of the Bio Thai Foundation, both key speakers at a symposium on “Local Foods” held recently at Bangkok’s Royal Paragon Hall as part of the Office of Knowledge Management and Development’s event “T(ha)ime Machine: Global Trends Turn Back to Thai Wisdom”.
“Can you tell me the names of the vegetables in the baskets?” Bo, one half of the successful chef team behind Bo.Lan restaurant, asked as she ground three kinds of nam prik or chilli paste with a pestle and mortar. The vegetables in question, all of them local, were sitting on long dining tables ready for participants to sample with the chilli paste.
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