Blurt!Commonplace Book

Talia Lavin

“If the bánh mì of Saigon and Hanoi represents the peculiar alchemy of a colonized people choosing and changing a legacy forced on them at gunpoint, the bánh mì of the United States is a product of another long, cruel war, and a mass exodus from subsequent privation.”

posted Aug. 24, 2022, 8:00pm