Both rustic and refined, Pâté de Campagne, or country pâté, could be called the cornerstone of charcuterie.

This is the kind of sauce you drink straight from the bottle when no one’s looking. A thick, crimson-chocolate colored sauce.

Don’t be mistaken. This is not Gwyneth Paltrow’s “go-to nosh” after a detoxing, beachside pilates sesh’.

Nước Chấm is magical, like a glutamic acid-spitting komodo dragon capable of granting culinary wishes. That kind of magical.