This passage made me miss my parents. Everything Anthony Bourdain said about dedication, pride, family, struggle are the qualities my parents embody and have modeled to me. Maybe one day I will share a bit of my parents’ story about their journey over here. About their life pre and post Vietnam. It has a lot [...]
Lamb Tagine from Kasbah Grill The first person who educated me that tagine is first, a cooking vessel before its namesake was passed on to the stew it helps cook was Brittany. In October we were eating at a delicious Moroccan restaurant (see link in caption) in Irving/Dallas, Texas and she told us she used [...]
I just started reading my first Anthony Bourdain book (A Cook’s Tour) and when I came across this passage describing eating pho in Saigon, I found myself salivating. I’ve only been to Vietnam (my parent’s homeland) twice in my lifetime thus far and the last time I was 15. In this passage, not only is [...]