Archive Guide

Thao Bui

  • Pop-up food business

  • Employment-based immigrant visas

  • Meningioma

  • War chemical defoliants

  • Covid and food business

  • Tomato egg drop soup (canh mây)

  • Why Red Boat makes fish sauce “the right way”

  • Home cooking vs. pop-up cooking

  • Cashew paste and Vietnamese chicken curry (cà ri gà)

  • Pricing and the value of Vietnamese spices

  • Viet Nam’s declining fish supply

  • Working with Vietnamese spice farmers

  • Saigon

Tuan Nguyen

  • Being a transnational adoptee

  • His father and the coffeeshop’s namesake, Larry Hilton

  • Viet Nam vs. New York coffee culture

  • Forging relationships from behind the cafe counter

  • Family reunions in Vinh Phuc

  • Vietnamese robusta coffee beans

  • Black coffee (cà phê đen)

  • Sea-salt coffee (cà phê muối)

  • Iced coffee (cà phê sữa đá)

  • “Clean” coffee

Lauren Tran

  • Cooking by taste memory

  • Not going to medical school

  • Covid and food business

  • Mom’s cassava cake (bánh khoai mì nướng)

  • Eating palmier cookies with her grandfather

  • Dad’s love of Petit Beurre cookies

  • Pricing and the value of Vietnamese food

  • Winning Gramercy Tavern’s pie contest with her coconut-pandan-lemongrass pie

  • Vietnamese and American perceptions of sweetness

Nhu Ton

  • Wage theft in Baton Rouge

  • Bedbugs in New York

  • Cooking as therapy

  • Fine-tuning her Vietnamese baguette recipe

  • Stacked rice sheets (bánh ướt chồng)

  • Grilled rice crackers (bánh đa)

  • Why charcoal is her favorite ingredient

  • Water bug essence (cà cuống)

  • Relationship with dad

  • Making peace with an unhappy childhood

  • Her non-profit vegetable/teaching farm in Buon Ma Thuot

  • Celebrating Vietnamese food, food workers, kitchen appliances, and skills

  • The joy and exhaustion of owning restaurants

Dennis Ngo

Forthcoming

Phoebe Tran

  • Brooklyn Grange, urban farming

  • Meal delivery service

  • Covid and food business

  • Breast cancer

  • Pesticides and food

  • War chemical defoliants

  • Vietnamese folk medicine

  • Cooking and grief

  • Quy Nhon and Cho Lon, Viet Nam

  • Orange County, California

  • Sweet and sour soup with cowa fruit (Canh chua tai chua )

  • Vietnamese herbs / foraging

  • Unlearning restaurant techniques

  • Đạo Mẫu (woman-based folk religion)

  • Vietnamese food naming practices

  • “Grief Ephemeral, Grief Eternal” (short film)

  • Problem with locavorism

  • The versatile banana plant

Eric Tran

Forthcoming