An Invitation to Revise: A Round-table Workshop for WritersWomen in Travel SummitKristin Winet

Eating My Way Through Chiang Mai, Bourdain-StyleSome people have all the luck. My luck was landing in Chiang Mai only weeks before five of my friends had planned to follow in Anthony Bourdains footsteps. They planned to follow in the footprints he had made on his Parts Unknown tour of Chiang Mai. Not only that, but Andy Ricker, owner of one of my favorite US restaurants, Pok Pok, was the guide for this tour. So, when the guy who had decided to organize this Magical Mystery Chiang Mai food tour of pig tails, tongues and brains, blood soup, and fried frogs asked if I was in, I said, Yeah, I am most definitely in.Though Anthony Bourdain probably had the luxury of eating all the food shown on the show in two or three days, we did it all in one night. A seven-hour Chiang Mai food fest that actually gave me a food hangover the next day. We went to almost every place that was on the show (one was closed by the time we got there.) However, weskipped the cabaret because, well, we kind of were the cabaret!I was happy that first we went to the cowboy hat lady. She made mouth-watering stewed pork leg. What makes it special is the sauce you put on top, the pickled cabbage, and the eggs. And boy, do they peel a lot of eggs every night. The cowboy hat lady first used the hat when the light was getting in her eyes. Everyone soon recognized her because of the hat, so its nowbecome her trademark. This was one of my favorite meals of the night, and at 30 baht a plate ($1 USD) this place was amazing.--