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Category Archives: musings
Family: the food, the bad, and the ugly
We recently visited my family in LA, and as usual, the visit churned up a host of conflicting emotions. I have never had the best relationship with my mother, whose perspective and understanding of life is so very different from … Continue reading
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Food for the greater good?
With a slow-going job search on my hands, lately I’ve been having entrepreneurial thoughts. Given my family’s disastrous experiments with business initiatives (failed restaurants, lost money, strained familial ties, etc., etc.) I am rather hesitant to even consider starting my … Continue reading
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The soup
It’s been over two months since I last posted and a lot has happened. This blog is first and foremost about Vietnamese cooking, but I’ve always known that other topics would intrude. I entitled the blog “in the soup” not … Continue reading
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Home again.
Another vacation, another long posting hiatus. After all the airplanes, trains, cars, subway, buses, and achy feet, we are home again. This time it was a whirlwind 19+ days through Portugal and France. There were many sites visited and much … Continue reading
That’s not pho-nny!
I came across this NYT piece a few weeks ago and let it go. The writer seemed to have good intentions about making healthy, tasty soups and I’m a firm believer in “to each their own.” But then I wrote … Continue reading
More Commune meals
In case you all aren’t already jealous of the Commune, go take a gander over at I Am the People. At the risk of sounding smug, every now and then I do marvel at how well we manage to eat. … Continue reading
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Valley Girl
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley (THE Valley for those of you from the area), the northwest corner of LA County and some 20 minutes from downtown LA. As a teenager in a terribly conservative Vietnamese family, despite … Continue reading
Have you ever wondered???
Sometimes, when I am driving or walking, I look at other people–like the drivers waiting at the red light across the intersection, or the mother of three trying to herd her children through the local Trader Joe’s, or the older … Continue reading
In the Soup 