ML Sirichalerm Svasti (Chef McDang) is Thailand’s leading food expert, chef and writer. Born into the Thai royal family, McDang completed his early education in the UK and USA and at the Culinary Institute of America, which led to a career as executive chef and restaurant owner and manager that saw him travel from Washington DC to Florida and California. Upon returning to Thailand in 1993, McDang began writing about food and cooking and appeared on TV cooking shows. Sixteen years later, McDang is Thailand’s most famous food expert and a respected ambassador for Thai cuisine. He is the author of several best-selling Thai language cook books, host of the popular weekly TV program, ‘McDang Travel Log’, pens weekly food columns for leading Thai and English-language newspapers, and consults for a number of companies, including Wai Wai instant noodles, and Samed Resort Group.
At an international level, McDang has appeared on a number of TV shows and has performed lecture tours in Australia and New Zealand. Each year he was invited to lecture at culinary schools in the USA by Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which he had recently been appointed as an honorary chef instructor at Le Cordon Bleu, Las Vegas. It is the notes for these lectures that form the basis of his first English language cook book ‘The Principles of Thai Cookery’, which was published in 2010, with a dream of having Thailand and Thai cuisine become even better known internationally.
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