Immersethrough.com
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grilling tomatoes for nam prik in Chiang Mai, at the market
photo: NAOMI DUGUID
CHIANG MAI!
The next
immersethrough food CULINARY TOURS are now scheduled, for winter 2012 in Chiang Mai ...
The first is from January 30 to February 4, 2012 and the second from February 5 to February 11, 2012(please go to the chiang mai page for details about the tours). There's a long article, with photos and recipes, in the November 2011 COOKING LIGHT magazine, about IMMERSETHROUGH written by Amy O'Connor who came with us in Jan-Feb 2011. And for a description with photos from a guy who loved this year's immerse, please go to Brad Borchardt's website expandingpalates.com
A REMINDER:
Please visit my blog:
I'm posting weekly, often with a recipe note as well as other ideas about the world. Or look for me on Twitter @naomiduguid
or on Facebook:
ploughing flooded paddy field in central Bali
photo: NAOMI DUGUID
who am I?
I am Naomi Duguid, cookbook author, traveller, writer, photographer, cook... I built this site just as my time of working with my ex-partner Jeffrey Alford was coming to an end. We worked together on six award-winning cookbooks, books that engage with culture through food and photographs. We are now happy to be working separately. It's an interesting and in many ways liberating change.
For more on those cookbooks, please go to: www.hotsoursaltysweet.com
There you'll find descriptions of the books, some wonderfully laudatory reviews, and more.
I have just handed in the manuscript for a Burma cookbook. Now we're in the editing phase. It's due out in September 2012. The title is:
RIVERS OF FLAVOR: Recipes & Travel Tales from Burma
I've been making trips into Burma for the last couple of years, a lucky opportunity to get familiar with a remarkable place and its rich layers of food culture. And I've loved working solo on this book!
The initial immersethrough idea, an immersion food and culture experience based in Chiang Mai, first flowered in February 2009. In 2010, together with Thai friends and colleagues, I held a second session, and then a third in Jan-Feb 2011. There's a participant's pleased description, with photos, here.
In 2012 we have two sessions scheduled, with a maximum of seven people each. Again I'll be working with Thai friends in Chiang Mai and in the country north of there. Please go to the Chiang Mai page for more details.
Immersethrough.com is all about the concept of immersion, of immersing in something so entirely, that every once in a while we must "come up for air."
For me, immersion is almost always associated with TRAVEL, with crossing borders and engaging with PEOPLE and with their CULTURE wherever I am, and with making myself vulnerable.
Morning market noodle stand in the Dai town of Menghan, southern Yunnan
photo: NAOMI DUGUID
And the prism through which I most often immerse myself is FOOD. I have spent the last twenty-five years travelling researching writing and photographing to make cookbooks, so food traditions, traditional foodways are what turn me on: flatbreads made by semi-nomadic pastoralists, the Tajik and Kirghiz, in the Pamir mountains; the spring run of Arctic char fished by the Inuit in Ungava Bay; the rice-growing traditions of the Dioula of Senegal's Casamance region; markets everywhere and anywhere...
Please check out plans for the next immersethrough food CULINARY TOURS set for winter 2012 in Chiang Mai ... The first is from Sunday January 29 to the morning of Saturday February 4, 2012 and the second from February 5 to February 11, 2012. Detailed descriptions of the tours are on the chiang mai page.
You can also find me at my blog:
I post about once a week... and on Twitter @naomiduguid
I now have a fan page on Facebook. It's http://www.facebook.com/NaomiDuguid
