CHIANG MAI!

The first is from January 27 to February 2, 2012 and the second from February 3 to February 11, 2013 (please go to the chiang mai page for details; the Burma trip is still in the planning stages). 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

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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 late September 2012.  The title is:

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 had a great time, and once again there will be some media reporting about it, in the Canadian edition of MORE magazine, probably in August.  

The dates for 2013 have now been set.  We'll do one session, from Sunday January 27 to Saturday February 2, 2013.  As it is each year, that first Saturday in February is the day of the amazing Flower Festival in Chiang Mai.  We'll have a maximum of seven people.  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. 

And the following week I'll be going with a small group to do a food-focussed introductory tour of Burma, a week-long visit, from Sunday February 3 to Monday February 11, 2013. Apart from Rangoon, we'll also visit the Inle Lake area, as well as Bagan.  Details to come!

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