McDang: Abincin Thai tare da sha'awa

McDang (Hoto: Wikipedia)

Lokaci-lokaci nakan rubuta akan wannan shafi game da adabi da Thailand. A yau zan so in dauki lokaci don yin tunani game da… littattafan dafa abinci. Ga wasu, babu wallafe-wallafen kwata-kwata, amma a kowane hali nau'in nau'in da ba za a iya watsi da shi ba saboda suna samar da mahimmanci, har yanzu girma a cikin kasuwar littattafai.

Masu dafa abinci na talabijin… Kuna son su ko kuna ƙinsu… Na isa in tuna da shugabar Flemish TV na farko, ƙwararren mai magana John Bultinck, sanannen lauya a rayuwa ta gaske. Wannan Burgundian, mai sha'awar ilimin gastronomy, ya gabatar da shirin daga 1968 zuwa 1973. Kalli & Dafa A lokacin BRT, inda a kodayaushe yakan sanya baka. A cikin shirin ko da yaushe ya kan gayyato wani sanannen bako wanda ya shirya masa abinci mai dadi kuma a lokaci guda suna tattaunawa da shi kan al'amuran rayuwa. Bultinck ya kawo '100 balaguron abinci' Haka kuma an buga littafi, wanda a cikinsa za ku iya samun labaran da ke tare da su baya ga girke-girke na wajibi. Ya kafa wani yanayi na rubuta masu dafa abinci na TV wanda ba mu ga ƙarshen ba tukuna. Daga Piet Huysentruyt a kan Sandra Bekkari zuwa Jeroen Meeus, dukansu suna cin gajiyar tallan dafa abinci kuma littattafan dafa abinci suna wakiltar, kamar yadda na rubuta a baya, babban yanki na kasuwar littattafai a yau.

Masu dafa abinci na TV sun kasance abin al'ajabi na duniya shekaru da yawa yanzu kuma Thailand, wacce ta kamu da bayanan sirri, ba ta kubuta daga wannan hauka ba. Ka yi tunanin shahararrun shirye-shiryen dafa abinci kamar Shugaban Iron en top Chef ko taurarin dafa abinci irin su Chef Gigg da Chef Jet Tila ko kuma fitattun vlogs na masu sukar kayan abinci na Amurka Mark Wiens.

Ɗaya daga cikin ubangida na nau'in a Tailandia shine mashahurin mai dafa abinci na TV kuma marubucin littafin dafa abinci McDang, wanda aka fi sani da Mom Luang Sirichalerm Svasti. An haife shi a ranar 16 ga Yuli, 1953 a Bangkok a cikin abin da aka fi sani da 'iyali mai kyau. Kakansa shi ne Yarima Svasti Sobhana (1865-1935), dan Sarki Mongkut kuma kakarsa ita ce Sarauniya Rambai Barni (1904-1984), matar Sarki Prajadhipok aka Rama VII. Kamar sauran yara maza na zamantakewa, ya halarci makarantar firamare da sakandare a Ingila. A nasa al'amarin, a cikin elitist Kwalejin Cheltenham a Gloucestershire, ɗaya daga cikin makarantun gwamnati mafi tsada a ƙasar.

Bayan haka, da nufin yin aiki a fannin diflomasiyya, ya ƙare a Amurka inda ya yi karatu a sananne daidai. Makarantar Hidimar Harkokin Waje, wanda aka haɗa zuwa Georgetown University a Washington, DC Cibiyar ilimi da Bill Clinton da Madeleine Albright, da sauransu, suka riga shi, kuma a cikin wasu abubuwa, ya raba kujerun tare da shugaban Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski. Koyaya, McDang ba zai taɓa zama jami'in diflomasiyya ba. Ya ga Julia Child akan nunin girkinta Mastering da Art of Faransa Cooking Amurka mai kallon talabijin ta gabatar da abincin Faransanci kuma an sayar da ita nan da nan. McDang ya yi cinikin jakar jakar da hular mai dafa abinci, ya ci gaba da dafa abinci a matsayin mataimakin mai dafa abinci a gidan cin abinci na Back Porch Café da ke Delaware—wanda daga baya ya mallaki—kuma ya sami digiri na biyu a matsayin mai dafa abinci daga Cibiyar Culinary Institute of America, wata makaranta mai zaman kanta ta masu dafa abinci. .

Tare da wannan difloma, ya sami damar yin aiki a matsayin mai dafa abinci a Otal ɗin Reach da ke Key West, Florida. Farkon aikin cin abinci mai nasara. Ta haka ya bi sawun mahaifinsa Mom Rajawongse Thanadsri Svasti (1927-2019) Ya girma a fadar Sa Pathum tare da 'yan'uwa Ananda Mahidol da Bhumibol Adulyadej, waɗanda za su zama sarakuna. Shi ma an kaddara shi don yin aikin gwamnati, amma a ƙarshe ya zaɓi kiɗa, talabijin da dafa abinci. Ya zama babban mawaki a cikin mashahuri Suntaraporn Band wanda da shi ya nada wakoki sama da 200. Bayan yakin ya yi aiki na dan wani lokaci a Landan don watsa shirye-shiryen rediyon BBC a kasar Thailand kafin ya zama daya daga cikin furodusoshi da masu gabatar da talabijin a Thailand. Babban soyayyar Thanadsri Svasti shine dafa abinci. Ya rubuta bita na abinci a cikin ginshiƙi tare da babban ilimi fiye da kwata na karni 'Shell Chuan Chim' a cikin 'Bita na mako-mako na Siam Rath', jagoran gidan cin abinci na Shell da Michelin wanda ya yi tasiri sosai a kan ci gaban masana'antar baƙi ta Thai. Don haka ba abin mamaki ba ne cewa biyu daga cikin 'ya'yansa maza, McDang da ɗan'uwansa Mom Luang Parson, daga baya su ma sun zaɓi yin ilimin gastronomy.

McDang ya koma Thailand a 1993 kuma ya fara ba kawai dafa abinci ba, har ma da rubutu da gabatar da shi, yana bin misalin mahaifinsa. Ya ce har yanzu yana daukar kansa a matsayin jami'in diflomasiyya. Burinsa ne kawai a yau ba siyasa ba ce illa ta abinci. Ya ɗauki abincin Thai a matsayin mafi girman ƙirƙira na al'ummar Thai kuma yana son shawo kan sauran duniya game da wannan. Tun 1998 ya buga littattafan dafa abinci ba kasa da takwas ba kuma shine ke da alhakin sashin gastronomic.Hanyar McDang' a cikin jarida Labaran yau da kullum. Ya nuna TV kamar McDang's Kitchen Weekly (ITV), da McDang Show (Channel 9) da McDang Travel Log (Tashar PPTV) suna cikin manyan nunin dafa abinci na Thai da aka fi kallo. An lura da wannan nasara mai girma a ƙasashen waje kuma ban da matsayi na koyarwa - a matsayin kawai Thai - a mai iko. Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts wannan ya haifar da fitowar baƙi tare da Jeff Corwin, Donna Perkins, Anthony Bourdain da Gordon Ramsay, da sauransu, kuma yana yin shirye-shirye don talabijin na New Zealand da Channel Travel Channel, da sauransu.