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Article: Family cookout takes a stab at Thais' year-round cuisine
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 24, 1986
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For many of us, warm weather on a Sunday afternoon may bring to
mind the thought of a barbecue. But for Pojanee Vatanapan and her
Thai countrymen, grilling over charcoal is a way of life year-round.
In Thai families, the youngest child is always responsible for
helping mother prepare family meals. As the youngest of 10 children,
Pojanee was beckoned to the kitchen almost as soon as she was able to
stir a ladle. By age 12 she was well known in her village as a cook.
Now, some 25 years later, she has collaborated with Linda
Alexander to make available many of her family's favorite recipes in
Pojanee Vatanapan's Thai Cookbook (Harmony Books, $14.95).
Vatanapan left her village in ...