There is no pure Thai food, and the name itself is younger than my grandmother. The Layered Table follows the cuisine back through every layer that built it — the rice-and-fish foundation, the Mon and Khmer ground, the Indic spice technology, the foreign quarters of the Ayutthaya port, the two Chinese roads, and the regions the center absorbed last — to the single year a state gave the whole accumulation one name and called it Thai. Once you can read a dish, its whole history sits there in plain sight. Read in the right order, the plate becomes a calendar.

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Khaao dtang bping bproong, rice crust grilled with garlic-lard and fish sauce, brushed on with a banana leaf. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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Laawy gaaeo saao sa wan, peeled grapes and cherries in vanilla-scented crystal syrup. From Jeeb Bunnag's 1933 palace cookbook.

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This week's folios:

- แกงเผ็ดปลาดุกโสด — Spicy Curry of Catfish and Pickled Bamboo (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- น้ำพริกกุ้งสด — Fresh Shrimp Chili Relish (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- ผัดฟองวิหคโสภณ — Stir-Fried Wild Duck with Salted Duck Egg Dumpling and Mustard Greens (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- ผัดไก่กับข้าวโพดอ่อน — Stir-fried Chicken with Baby Corn (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- มัสยาวตาร — Matsya Avatara (The Fish Incarnation) (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- ขนมไข่เต่าวิเศษ — Magical Turtle Egg Dumplings (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- ขนมทองโปร่ง — Airy Golden Cake (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)

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Khanohm thong pro:ng, a rice flour sponge baked in molds with whipped egg whites, from Jeeb Bunnag's 1933 Cookbook of Rice Companion Recipes.

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Khanohm khai dtao wiset, oval rice flour dumplings in salty coconut cream with shrimp tomalley, from Jeeb Bunnag's 1933 cookbook.

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Matsya Avatara: deboned whole red snapper filled with a roasted seven-spice paste, steamed in banana leaf, then fried golden. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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Phat faawng wi hohk so:h phohn: wild duck stir-fried with ornamental salted egg yolk dumplings in naam khlook khlik sauce. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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Gaaeng phet bplaa dook so:ht, spicy catfish curry with snakehead fish pounded into the paste, pickled bamboo shoots, and tamarind. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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Naam phrik goong soht, a pounded shrimp relish with Songkhla tomalley paste, hairy eggplant, and salacca. From Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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Phat gai gap khaao phoht aawn, chicken and baby corn stir-fried with garlic, sauce thickened by pounded corn kernels. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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This week's folios:

- แกงไก่กับลิ้นจี่สด — Chicken Curry with Fresh Lychee (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- หมี่สั้วฉงน — Perplexing Mee Suaa (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- เป็ดย่างไตราว — Grilled Duck Dtai Raao (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- แป๊ะซะปลาเผา — Roasted Fish Pae Sa (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- เต้าเจี้ยวพล่า — Fermented Soybean Paste Dipping Relish (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- แปลงกะปิคั่ว — Modified Roasted Shrimp Paste Relish (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
- สังขยาเผือก — Taro Custard (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)

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Bplaaeng ga bpi khuaa: shrimp paste relish with salted black olive and smoke-dried fish, fried in broken coconut oil. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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Sang kha yaa pheuuak, a steamed coconut cream custard with mold-pressed taro slices, from Jeeb Bunnag's 1933 Cookbook of Rice Companion Recipes.

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Gaaeng gai gap lin jee soht: coconut chicken curry with whole fresh lychee, added last to preserve its floral aroma. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.

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