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誌 · 食 · 之 · 旅
№ I
誌
FIELD NOTES · HANOI
No. I
FIELD NOTES · HANOI
On the origins of phở
How a peasant's anti-waste broth, born in Nam Định's smoke kitchens, became the dish a country travels under.
PANTRY · ALL ASIA
No. II
PANTRY · ALL ASIA
A field guide to Asian chillies
Chillies travelled east from the Americas in the 16th century and rewrote half a continent's pantry within a hundred years. A short guide to the seven that matter most.
FIELDWORK · LAOS · ISAAN
No. III
FIELDWORK · LAOS · ISAAN
The politics of sticky rice
Why the upland rice that feeds two-thirds of Laos and most of northeastern Thailand has no place at the official table — and why that may, finally, be changing.