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latimes: The story behind Sriracha With a distinctive bottle...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:45:37 -0400

The story behind Sriracha

With a distinctive bottle and 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

“There are 7 billion people on this planet who I have not met,and 195 countries I have not...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:40:52 -0400

“There are 7 billion people on this planet who I have not met,
and 195 countries I have not visited.
Yet I am stuck in this insignificant town,
Being pressured into making decisions about my future,
When I barely even know who I am.”

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good morning dabs

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:27:36 -0400

good morning dabs

w0lf-sunset: 遵循狼

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:26:08 -0400

w0lf-sunset:

遵循狼

smotpoke: Mr. Gray “Medical Marijuana” High End Glass Blog

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:30:51 -0500

smotpoke:

Mr. Gray

“Medical Marijuana”

High End Glass Blog

razorshapes: Karen Knorr India Song (2008-2012) Karen Knorr’s...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:23:39 -0500

razorshapes:

Karen Knorr

India Song (2008-2012)

Karen Knorr’s past work from the 1980’s onwards took as its theme the ideas of power that underlie cultural heritage, playfully challenging the underlying assumptions of fine art collections in academies and museums in Europe through photography and video. Since 2008 her work has taken a new turn and focused its gaze on the upper caste culture of the Rajput in India and its relationship to the “other” through the use of photography, video and performance. The photographic series considers men’s space (mardana) and women’s space (zanana) in Mughal and Rajput palace architecture, havelis and mausoleums through large format digital photography. Karen Knorr celebrates the rich visual culture, the foundation myths and stories of northern India, focusing on Rajasthan and using sacred and secular sites to consider caste, femininity and its relationship to the animal world. Interiors are painstakingly photographed with a large format Sinar P3 analogue camera and scanned to very high resolution. Live animals are inserted into the architectural sites, fusing high resolution digital with analogue photography. Animals photographed in sanctuaries, zoos and cities inhabit palaces, mausoleums , temples and holy sites, interrogating Indian cultural heritage and rigid hierarchies. Cranes, zebus, langurs, tigers and elephants mutate from princely pets to avatars of past feminine historic characters, blurring boundaries between reality and illusion and reinventing the Panchatantra for the 21st century.

wyoh: youarecordiallyinvitedtopissoff: Hasisi Park

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:52:13 -0500

wyoh:

youarecordiallyinvitedtopissoff:

Hasisi Park

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catsbeaversandducks: “Watch out, it’s a trap, dude!!!” Photo by...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:23:07 -0500

catsbeaversandducks:

“Watch out, it’s a trap, dude!!!”

Photo by ©Corridor Digital

catsbeaversandducks: Via I Love Charts

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:22:42 -0500

catsbeaversandducks:

Via I Love Charts

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"If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. Except for..."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:24:55 -0500

“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison you are living in.”

- Bill Hicks (1961–94)