The First Thai Restaurant In The U.S. Was In Denver — Here's An Original Recipe
Ryan Warner/CPR News Holly Arnold Kinney's copy of "Lily’s Cookbook,” a collection of the restaurant’s most popular recipes. The book had a run-in with Kinney's dog. Chada Thai is widely recognized as the first Thai restaurant in the United States. It opened in Denver in the early 1960s — despite the city’s longtime cowtown image. The restaurant’s late founder, Lily Chittivej, moved to town from Thailand after visiting her husband here in 1960. He was a doctor. “I want my children to have a good education in a civilized country,” she wrote in “Lily’s Cookbook,” a collect...
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