Graham Holliday's Blog, page 7
March 29, 2015
March 20, 2015
Best Seller
I’m not even gonna bother tweeting this. And I know Amazon sales statistics are really weird. But, anyway, best seller for the past few days at least. Might never happen again. So, there it is.
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The last of seven random excerpts from my Eating Việt Nam book, which was published this week. This passage refers to the place on Phùng Hưng street in Hà Nội where I first tried Bún chả in 1997. It’s also where I took my wife for our first ever lunch together. I went back here […]
March 19, 2015
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The sixth of seven short, random excerpts from my book published this week. After almost a decade of eating on the streets of Việt Nam, Ba Sau’s Bún mắm in Sài Gòn’s District 10 was in many ways the end of the road. I never found a better soup. I wrote a whole chapter about […]
March 18, 2015
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Another random excerpt from my book which went on sale yesterday. Given the title – Eating Việt Nam – I imagine the very last thing readers will expect to find between the covers is a real life, full-time monster hunter, but they’d be wrong. There is one. And I’m glad he’s there, I told a […]
March 17, 2015
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Another random excerpt from my book which goes on sale today. It’s the number one seller in the highly contested ‘Hot New Releases – Vietnamese cooking, food & wine section’ on Amazon. These kind of pavement tea stalls are some of the best places to hang out in Hà Nội. I say stalls, but really […]
March 16, 2015
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Above is the third of seven random excerpts from my book which goes on sale tomorrow. And some context below, This section refers to Mr. Thìn of Phở Thìn at 13 Lò Đúc street in Hà Nội. That’s him smoking in the picture above. He is something of a soup selling legend. I’ve eaten at […]
March 13, 2015
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Above is the second of seven, random, micro-excerpts that I will publish from my book. Below is some context. Bún đậu is one of my favourite street food dishes. After the American War, it was known as “food for the poor”. For that reason, in the late nineties and early naughts, this dirt cheap dish might […]
March 12, 2015
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Above, is the first of seven, random, micro-excerpts from my Eating Việt Nam book which is published next week. Some thoughts on this dish, this place, this cook and this bit of my book below. Cô Ba runs a restaurant on Highway 22. It’s about 30 miles north west of downtown Sài Gòn. Like many […]
March 10, 2015
publication day
My book goes on sale in one week in the United States and Canada. Some people have said some very nice things about it. It’s got sketches. I drew them. It’s got around 350 pages, 31 chapters, liner notes and a colophon. It’s got a foreword from Anthony Bourdain. It’s got an ISBN number. If […]
