lemongrass
The second arrival is the one that matters.
Cultural layer
Bangkok: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Thailand (Leela Punyaratabandhu, 2017)
Route
PendingThe routes are written. They are not yet mapped.
This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.
1 of 404 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype
- Waypoints
Ordered places, each with its kind
- Coordinates
Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from
- Segments
From, to, and the mechanism that moved it
- Confidence
Documented, attributed or contested
- Summary
What the route argues, in a sentence
Rite
Lemongrass is planted at the boundary of a compound across Southeast Asia to mark it and to keep snakes off, and it appears in Thai and Khmer offerings and in the water used for ritual bathing. It is not chewed or swallowed in most dishes: it is bruised, steeped and removed. An ingredient designed to be taken back out again is closer to incense than to a vegetable.
Bangkok: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Thailand (Leela Punyaratabandhu, 2017)
Names · co-equal, marked by how each one travelled
FoodwayPresent as a living food culture.
No names recorded.
Connections
19 bonds · 18 sourcedThai curry.
Tom yum.
Curry paste base.
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The guayusada, the Kichwa dawn ritual.
The soup aromatics papeda is eaten with.
The rempah base.
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The sour fruit in a Javanese sayur.
Rawon.
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Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place.
Studio Culinar-E, "lemongrass", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/lemongrass
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.