An ace L.A. team is the secret sauce behind the Red Boat cookbook

Talking with Tien Nguyen and Diep Tran about "The Red Boat Fish Sauce Cookbook"
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • March 5, 2022
Cuong Pham, the founder of Red Boat Fish Sauce, has the kind of business story that should be adapted for a Netflix series. He arrived in the United States from Vietnam in 1979, and the cultural adjustments included never quite being able to...
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