7ILT1 Asian Food Safari: Thailand

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Thailand is a land that stretches across climatic zones north and south so the food and historic diet also varies with the seasons. Despite this diversity, many of the foods that made up the historic diet are common throughout the country as its borders stand today. In the mainland the orange is indigenous, while further south foods like the breadfruit and banana were found. However, most of the foods arrived with settlers and later with traders.

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Thailand, whose name means "Land of the Free People," is the only Southeast Asian country that has never been a colony of a European power. Visitors to Thailand who expect to find a nation frozen in the past are always startled by what they find. Thailand has borrowed freely from the West without losing its special Asian identity. It is a dynamic society.

Capital city: Bangkok (Krung Thep = "City of angels")

Until 1939, the country we call Thailand was known as Siam. It was the only Southeast Asian country never colonized by the West. This helped Thailand to maintain its own special cuisine (cooking style). However, that cuisine had already been influenced by Thailand's Asian neighbors.