This year the annual Worlds of Flavor conference at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone took on the seemingly impossible task of exploring “The Rise of Asia” in two days of seminars, cooking sessions — and a lot of eating. A highlight of the conference took place Thursday and Friday nights and Saturday afternoon when the CIA’s Barrel Room was transformed into a marketplace from some exotic land. This year it was several lands, and giant Chinese red dragons and paper dragonflies floated in the air above Thai dancers and Japanese drummers, while chefs anda vendors from Singapore, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea and India dispensed samples of everything from chocolate dipped vegetables to green tea ice cream. Here’s a sampling of recipes from some of the chefs.

If you go to the Republic of Georgia, be sure to take your appetite along.

Now that we’ve had our fill of the Mediterranean diet, Americans are looking to Asia to whet their appetites.

(Bubur Cha Cha)

My sister Judy is completely tone deaf. She honestly cannot tell one note from another. Her CD changer, programmed by her husband, always has the same five classical recordings in it. When you ask her what’s playing, she answers “Number three.” Years of piano lessons were wasted on her. We don’t let her sing. She couldn’t carry a tune in a backpack.