When Everyone In the Village Makes Fish Sauce: A Profile of Sa Chau, Vietnam — Maker Tour

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Who: The village of Sa Chau
What: Fish sauce
Where: Sa Chau, Nam Dinh, Vietnam

In Vietnam, it’s common for entire villages to be occupied in making one thing. Bat Trang village makes pottery. Chuong village makes the famous conical hats called “non.” Phu Do is the home of rice noodles. And, as we saw yesterday in a profile of fish sauce makers Vu Thi Hoa and Vu Van Hai, Sa Chau, a small town off the coast of northern Vietnam, makes fish sauce.

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You Don’t Need a Grill to Cook a Great Steak! — Tips from The Kitchn

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For years I was convinced that the only way to cook a great steak, and well, most types of meat, was on the grill. And since there was no way to have a grill in my small New York City apartment, I restricted my meat eating to restaurants and weekends visiting my parents (and their grill!) in the suburbs.

A few years ago, I experimented with cooking a steak in my cast iron skillet. Despite my initial skepticism, this forever changed the way I cook meat!

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