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meat loves salt
There’s an old folktale called “Rush Cape” that we first read as little girls and returned to later as adults. In the story, a king asks his three daughters how much they each love him. The first two flatter him by comparing their love to lavish things. But the third and most genuine simply says, “I love you as much as meat loves salt.” It’s not until many years later, when the king is served a terribly unseasoned piece of meat, that he realizes  she was the one who loved him most.

Meat Loves Salt is about the meals we grew up with and didn’t realize we missed until we had to cook for ourselves. It’s about our love for the foods, cultures, and traditions of our family. It’s about preserving old memories and creating new ones.

sisters
We’re two sisters living on opposite coasts: Julie is a writer in DC, and Becca is a designer in Orange County, CA. We grew up in a Chinese Vietnamese family, where our foodie father taught us the key to good food is time and care, while our practical mother taught us a couple of shortcuts never hurt. Now married with our own homes to take care of, we’ve been looking for ways to bring the foods we grew up with into our new lives. This blog is a way to document, explore, and share that journey.