Lao Cooking and the Essence of Life by Xaixana Champanakone

The Lao Way of Living, so intimately in touch and in tune with nature, will lead you to an understanding of the Lao Way of Cooking. The chapter LAOS Today is a start; after that get into details with Cooking Meditation. Here I make an attempt at interpreting, i.e. translating into and explaining in English, Lao cooking terminology and the characteristics of various dishes. These terms are forever fluid, overlapping and interchanging, truly reflecting the easygoing way of Lao life, the unimportant-ness of it all. The Lao music will put you in the mood and the slideshow will put you in the picture.