This week's folios:

- แกงคั่วไก่สามสิบ — Gaaeng Khuaa Chicken with Shatavari (Jeeb Bunnag (Mrs. Samaknantapol) (นาง สมรรคนันทพล), 1933)
- แกงเป็ดรสนิยม — Refined-Taste Roasted Duck Curry (Maawm Ying Soophaa, 1949)
- ห่อหมกปลาช่อน — Steamed Snakehead Fish Curry Parcels (Lady Gleep Mahithaawn, 1949)
- ห่อหมกกุ้ง — Steamed Shrimp Curry Parcels (Lady Gleep Mahithaawn, 1949)
- ขนมจีนน้ำพริก — Fermented Rice Noodles with Sweet Prawn-and-Mung-Bean Sauce (Lady Gleep Mahithaawn, 1949)
- ยำมะเขือเทศ (หรือพริกหยวก) — Roasted Tomato or Banana Chili Salad (Lady Gleep Mahithaawn, 1949)
- มันสอดไส้ — Beef-Stuffed Potato Croquettes (Jeeb Bunnag (Mrs. Samaknantapol / นาง สมรรคนันทพล), 1933)

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Khanohm jeen naam phrik: fermented rice noodles with pounded prawn, roasted mung bean and tamarind-coconut sauce. Lady Gleep Mahithaawn, 1949.

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Man saawt sai, mashed potato shells encasing a minced-beef filling pounded with ginger, turmeric and coriander, fried golden. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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Gaaeng bpet roht ni yohm, a coconut-cream curry of grilled duck soured with salt-soaked star gooseberries. From Maawm Ying Soophaa, 1949.

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Yam ma kheuua thaeht: flame-roasted tomatoes, peeled and seeded, dressed with ground dried shrimp and madan. Lady Gleep Mahithaawn, 1949.

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haaw mohk pla chon: snakehead fish steamed in banana leaf with one coconut pressed into three grades of milk. Lady Gleep Mahithaawn, 1949.

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Haaw mohk goong — giant freshwater prawns in fish haw mok paste, bound with one egg before wrapping and steaming. Lady Gleep, 1949.

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Gaaeng khuaa gai saam sip, chicken curry with young shatavari fruit; paste fried in rendered coconut oil. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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This week's folios:

- แกงจืดลูกชิ้นกุ้งกับผักกาดปลี — Mild soup with prawn balls and Chinese cabbage (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- ข้าวแขก — Indian-Style Rice - Layered Jasmine Rice and Coconut Milk pudding with Crispy Shallots (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- งบปลาอุย — Grilled Catfish Parcels (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- ผัดพริกขิงเนื้ออ่อน — Stir-fried Sheatfish with Phrik Khing Paste (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- ข้าวตังปิ้งปรุง — Grilled Seasoned Rice Crust (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- ลอยแก้วสาวสวรรค์ — Heavenly Maidens Floating in Crystal Syrup (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)

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The 1949–1957 household cookbook of Lady Gleep Mahithaawn (ท่านผู้หญิงกลีบ มหิธร, 1876–1961), dictated to her grandchildren near the end of her life. Two hundred forty-eight recipes of aristocratic Siamese home cooking — fermented rice noodles, curries and soups, Thai salads, stir-fries, dips and relishes, and a full book of fruit, savory snacks, and sweets — each presented with the original Thai manuscript, a direct translation, and the household measures of the period kept as she gave them.

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Phat phrik khing neuua aawn: scored sheatfish deep-fried in lard, topped with dry-pounded phrik khing paste. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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Gaaeng jeuut with steamed prawn-and-cabbage rolls in a clear shiitake broth with fried garlic, from Jeeb Bunnag's 1933 cookbook.

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Khaao khaaek: lightly salted soft rice under a turmeric-tinted, jasmine-scented coconut cream, twice as thick as the rice. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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Ngohp bplaa uy, pla uy catfish sealed in banana leaf with aromatic herb paste and coconut cream, then charcoal-grilled. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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There is no pure Thai food, and the name itself is younger than my grandmother. The Layered Table follows the cuisine back through every layer that built it — the rice-and-fish foundation, the Mon and Khmer ground, the Indic spice technology, the foreign quarters of the Ayutthaya port, the two Chinese roads, and the regions the center absorbed last — to the single year a state gave the whole accumulation one name and called it Thai. Once you can read a dish, its whole history sits there in plain sight. Read in the right order, the plate becomes a calendar.

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