"bun" news and stories

I have a thing for gorgeous, fresh salads (as you'll see later when I post my own dinner salad from last night). Looking through the Slashfood Flickr pool, this one nearly jumped off the screen at me and I knew I had found today's featured image. Especially since Spring is coming. Spring! Fresh, young vegetables! The promise of summer fruit! (I'm more than just a little bit excited about the coming change of season).

This image comes to us from Flickr user Eunnycjang and features a Vietnamese bun-style salad with "romaine, carrots, cabbage, cucumber, rice noodles, tons of mint, basil, cilantro, and Mark Bittman's shortcut caramel pork." It is dressed with nuoc mam.

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