Supenn Harrison, the entrepreneurial chef whose egg roll booth at the Minnesota State Fair became Sawatdee, thus introducing Thai cuisine to the Midwest, has a third cookbook. "Awaken to Thai Cooking" is a thank-you of sorts, with all proceeds dedicated to Thai monks in the Twin Cities to support their work.

Recipes include some of Sawatdee's specialties, but the book is sprinkled with tidbits about Buddhism, including its three precepts: Do not do bad. Do good. Keep your mind clean.

Cookbooks are at Harrison's restaurants, or may be ordered through her website, www.sawatdee.com. ($20 color, $10 b&w.) There's also info there on cooking classes, the Buddhist Center of Minnesota, and much more.

Everything old is new again. The first-ever Byerly's store at 5725 Duluth St. in Golden Valley is having a grand reopening, at 10:30 a.m. March 4.

For the past nine months, Lund Food Holdings Inc. has overseen extensive renovations that include a new food service area called Byerly's Creations. The new area will include extensive rotisserie options, a breakfast grill, a budget-minded sandwich counter, take-and-bake pizzas and much more. There even will be patio seating when winter breaks.

When the store opened in 1968, it was the largest supermarket in Minnesota and was nationally recognized for concepts such as an in-store bakery and deli, full-time home economist on staff and, of course, the extra-wide carpeted aisles.

Two cooks are better than one, so a whole website of cooks must be even better. That's the idea behind Crisco Cooking Chronicles, an online message board for cooks to connect and share their kitchen experiences.

Visitors to www.Crisco.com/chronicles will find video tutorials, tips and recipes. The first topic is how to use more olive and canola oils in your cooking and baking.

Consumers who upload a "cooking chronicle" will be entered into a series of drawings, with four monthly grand prize winners receiving a basket of Crisco products and $500 for kitchen supplies. Additional consumers will receive a Crisco spatula while supplies last.

KIM ODE