“A symphony of a sandwich”
Anthony Bourdain
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Get hungry, y’all. This week we’re taking a look at the darker side of French history by exploring the history of one of the world’s best sandwiches, the banh mi!
Episode 47: “The History of the Bánh Mì
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Further Reading
- Remember my episode on the buche de Noel? The Yule Log lives on today – in Vietnam. Even in 2019, you can pick up a Christmas cake in fancy boulangeries! (Quartz)z
Sources
- The Marvel of Banh Mi – Andrew Lam (The Cairo Review)
- The Curious History of Vietnam’s Banh Mi Sandwich – Matthew Pike (The Culture Trip)
- The Sandwich That Ate The World – Simon Stanley (Roads and Kingdoms)
- This Is America’s Hottest Sandwich Right Now – Ian Salisbury (CNN Money)
- To Understand France’s Food, Look at the Places It Colonized – Mayukh Sen (Food52)
- Food and Nutrition – Erica J. Peters (International Encyclopedia of the First World War)
- The fall of Germans in Saigon – Thoi Bao Kinh Te Sai Gon (Thanh Nien News)
- Letter from FDR to Cordell Hull
- Asia and the Great War: A Shared History – Guoqi Xu
- Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam: Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century – Erica J. Peters
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