Roast Chicken

While we were filming at my chum Chom’s country retreat, two elderly ladies were sitting cross-legged on the floor grinding fresh herbs in a pestle and mortar and fiddling with a couple of chickens as well as a large square empty oil container with the top taken off. After they had marinated and stuffed the chickens, they hung them inside the tin and placed the tin on a metal tray.

To my astonishment, they took it outside on to a track that ran through the paddy fields, and covered