Many decades ago, a man in Vietnam had a noble dream. David Tran wanted to make the greatest hot sauce the world had ever tasted. For five years after the fall of Saigon, he put his homemade chili ...

This always happens: I eat one meal while devising the next. Recently, while tableside cooking thin slices of garlicky pork, golden chicken and spicy mushrooms at a Korean barbecue restaurant, the ...