"Niman Ranch, " says Kotler, as her dining companion slices a pork chop at Woodward's Garden restaurant in San Francisco.

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Then when the Vietnamese sent the French packing in 1954, they put their own spin on the sandwich, adding slices of pork, herbs and pickled vegetables, and creating the banh mi as we know it.

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Standouts are a gentle potato soup, garnished with black-radish slices and crispy kale, and pork-filled potato dumplings in a frothy smoked-cheese mousse.

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M. on the seventeenth he was served it: three barbecued pork ribs, two orders of onion rings, fried okra, three beef enchiladas with cheese, and two slices of lemon cream pie.

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