Even if we order nothing else off the menu, we always ask for garden rolls when we visit our local Vietnamese restaurant. There’s something especially comforting about being able to pick up one of these rice paper bundles, dip it in a bowl of sweet/salty sauce and bite into a mouthful of crisp vegetables, sweet […]
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Last night we took ourselves out to a new pho joint here in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of the District of Columbia, then came home and watched a documentaryon public television about D.C. in the ’60s, culminating, of course, with the riots that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. At first blush, the connection between […]
New Year’s seems to be a time of lists–what’s in, what’s out. If you put a gun to my head and forced me to make a list of the world’s greatest foods, this would have to be near the top–the simple Vietnamese noodle soup called pho (pronounced fuh?, like a question). You know you are […]
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