Shayma Saadat has the unique talent of mixing delicious dishes with beautiful writing, making her recipes on her blog The Spice Spoon: Cooking Without Borders both a thrill for the palette and a literary feast.

Since opening in 2009, Baan Pra Nond has earned the reputation as one of Bangkok’s most distinguished Bed & Breakfast Inns. Its accolades include being the recipient of The Award of Architectural Preservation in 2010 by the Association of Siamese Architects. It was also featured in the 2011 ‘LUXE Bangkok City Guide’ – a savvy travel guide recommending the hippest places to stay, dine and shop at in cities around the world.

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Lizette Alvarez in New York Times:

TARA Stiles does not talk about sacred Hindu texts, personal intentions or chakras. She does not ask her yoga classes to chant. Her language is plainly Main Street: chaturangas are push-ups, the “sacrum” the lower back. She dismisses the ubiquitous yoga teacher-training certificates as rubber stamps, preferring to observe job candidates in action.

In her classes, videos and how-to book, “Slim Calm Sexy,” Ms. Stiles, a 29-year-old former model with skyscraper limbs and a goofball sensibility, focuses on the physical and health aspects of yoga, not the spiritual or the philosophical. For traditionalists, this is heresy, reducing what they see as a way of life to just another gym class.

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