Gordon Ramsey’s 100 recipes you can stake your life on #8: Chili Beef Salad.
Sooooooo GOOD. Will be making this one again.
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.”
At work people always call it the Chinese chili sauce, or call it sirachi…
I always have to correct them lol.
(via mp-photography)
