I am excited to announce our first Austin Field trip, a joint venture between CuisineXplorers and Wine for the People. On Saturday April 30, from 3-5pm, we will be visiting with Jam Sanitchat of Thai Fresh to help her launch her new endeavor Thrice, a coffee and wine bar with live music adjacent to the Thai Fresh space.
Jam Sanitchat of Thai Fresh will guide us on a sensory tour to help us understand the flavor components of Thai cuisine.
Thai Food Deconstructed aims to be a fun and educational outing in which we will explore some of the most iconic ingredients and spices used in Thai cuisine. We seek to transport you to a market in Bangkok through touch, sight, smell and taste. First we will go on a mini tour of Thai Fresh’s market shelves to identify some of the most common ingredients, like lemongrass, tamarind, galangal, and makrood leaves.
We will taste them individually to get acquainted with their texture, feel, smell, and taste. Then we will sample iconic Bangkok street foods that Jam will prepare using the ingredients that we sampled, to understand how their flavors mingle together and create the tastes that we love. Rae Wilson, from Wine for the People, will chose a variety of wines available by the glass at Thrice to help us understand which wine styles are the best matches to these Thai ingredients and dishes, and why.
Rae Wilson loves rose, and you can bet she'll be pairing some with our deconstruction of Thai cuisine.
This will not be a cooking demonstration class, although I highly recommend you sign up to take one of Jam’s classes while you are there. She is an excellent instructor and her classes are tons of fun. What we seek to do is a little more specific, an exploration of the individual flavors and aromas that together create a complex and interesting cuisine that delivers a multi-layered flavor experience.
Jam makes an amazing green papaya salad, one of the dishes we will sample during our field trip. Photo by Jam Sanitchat.
We are limiting this field trip to 15 people in order to give individualized attention. The cost is $25 per person and includes samples of three dishes and three wine pairings. To reserve your spot, please email claudia@cuisinexplorers.com, or reserve your spot through PayPal now!
Chale! Ese sabado trabajo! Ni hablar! Hope to see you soon huerx! Besitos
Very cool! Monique has a show that day or else we’d be signing up.
Hi there! Great website and I added you on facebook… just an FYI though, your facebook link on the front page just goes to facebook, not to your facebook page and your contact email is not a hyperlink (if I click on it it does not automatically create an email to you, I have to copy and paste it.)
Good luck with your venture… looks like a great idea!
Thanks for the feedback Shay, I’ll fix it right away. Thanks for reading!
Thai Fresh is awesome! Great concept, great food… Will you be able to bring wine from Thrice into TF? O man, I am feeling me some Riesling right now! Sounds like a great seminar…
We will actually do the tasting portion at Thrice. Have you been yet? It’s SO cool! And yes, I am sure some Riesling will be on hand. I do love me some Riesling…the most misunderstood wine out there, maybe next to rose. Thanks for reading Jeremy!
Claudia, sign me in for the next one! Can it be a fresh fish market tour, please?
That sounds like a great idea for summer Emilia, let me look into it!
Claudia:
wish we could be there, but it is the day before our Somms event and we will be working. we would love to do this sometime.
I have been anticipating your local tours and would sign up for this one, but I long ago volunteered to man a boat safety booth that day. If you offer it again, I hope to make it.