Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody police assault on civil rights demonstrators in Derry on 5 October 1968 One of ...

Phan came to the U.S. from Vietnam at the age of 13 and was a self-taught chef. He won several big awards--including the James Beard Award for Best California Chef in 2004. "He's one of the big ...

But, Phan came up at a time when it wasn’t, Lewis added. “I think we took for granted when Slanted Door became popular that these ingredients were not ubiquitous. He was really instrumental in that.” ...

Born in South Vietnam in 1962, Phan and his family fled the country after the U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War and fall of Saigon when he was 13 years old. They briefly relocated to Guam ...

Charles Phan, a refugee from war-ravaged Vietnam who, after learning traditional recipes from his aunt and mother, elevated Vietnamese cuisine in the United States through his acclaimed San ...

San Francisco is mourning the loss of a legendary chef. Charles Phan of the Slanted Door died due to cardiac arrest, his family and Slanted Door Group announced Tuesday. He was 62. "It is with ...

Phan, who was of Chinese-Vietnamese heritage, was born in Da Lat, Vietnam. He was 13 years old when he escaped Vietnam with his parents and five siblings before the fall of Saigon. They lived in a ...

Phan was born in Da Lat, Vietnam, and at the age of 13, he and his family fled the country, eventually settling down in San Francisco. He learned to cook Vietnamese food from his aunt and mother ...

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — Treading a familiar path for women in rural Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Hiep found a factory job in dynamic Ho Chi Minh City and spent 16 years helping make shoes for Western ...

He was 62. Phan was 13 when his family escaped Vietnam and moved to the United States. In 1995, he opened the landmark fine-dining Vietnamese restaurant the Slanted Door in San Francisco’s ...

Slanted Door chef Charles Phan was known for loving smoke, not skimping on spice, and having plenty of fun with Vietnamese cuisine. This soup — which has an intense chicken flavor accented by ...