To me, SF Food Wars is much like Fernet: at first, a little voice in my head says, “Hell yes, let’s do this,” both make me giddy and willing to talk to strangers, and finally, both leave me feeling hung-over, wondering, “What was I thinking?” Still for the past two years, I’ve gone back for more. [...]
The Damn Bien, my duck confit bánh mì, is a nod to the famous Battle of Diem Bien Phu when French colonialists fell to the Vietnamese. The battle raged from March to May 1954. My own mother and her family left Saigon for Paris between 1967 and 1968. Shortly after the move to Paris, my mother [...]
Last summer I concocted a drink that tasted exactly like southern sweet tea — without a single drop of tea. If you’ve never had southern sweet tea, imagine freshly brewed black tea pour over an glass of ice, then mixed with 4 tablespoons of sugar (yes, that much sugar). That’s Southern sweet tea. I call this [...]
The hunt for quality bread in SF is on. At the same time, I’m narrowing down which recipes I want to deliver up for my private tasting next week. Will be experimenting a ginger aioli. More to come.
