The latest in a long line of hardy and clever broads, I am no different, except my homestead is the hood.
This is a place where I write and share things. Mostly silliness, but not always.
the tough lady
The story behind Sriracha
With a distinctive bottle taste, Sriracha has gone from an unpronounceable challenge to a staple sauce for many Americans. In the U.S. alone, $60 million worth of the sauce was sold last year alone.
But it wasn’t always such a prevalent item on store shelves. David Tran, the man responsible for popularizing the hot sauce, had a long journey beforehand:
When North Vietnam’s communists took power in South Vietnam, Tran, a major in the South Vietnamese army, fled with his family to the U.S. After settling in Los Angeles, Tran couldn’t find a job — or a hot sauce to his liking.
So he made his own by hand in a bucket, bottled it and drove it to customers in a van. He named his company Huy Fong Foods after the Taiwanese freighter that carried him out of Vietnam.
Read more via our profile of Tran, and his beloved hot sauce.
Photos: Gina Ferazzi, Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times
Great take by Tran on refusing to take investor money to increase production: “If our product is still welcomed by the customer, then we will keep growing.”
Sriracha. How do I love thee? Lets count the ways?
The Dancing Pee Wee Herman Caper: In honor of my move to bklyn, I’m reprising this from my favorite pub in billyburg.
…as long as we are busting at the seams of our own too small lives, as long as we are holding ourselves up to expectations that no healthy human being could achieve, as long as we deny our own suffering, we will be unable to see our vast interconnection with the suffering of the world. After all, in our incessant self-critique there is a myopia.
