In Dubai, the Vietnamese baguette is reimagined with lamb filling to suit Middle Eastern palates. Photo courtesy of Banh Mi ...

DUNDEE — Theodore Lamb was still getting started on his adult life when he headed to Vietnam. Lamb, a Dundee native, had few advantages as the oldest of eight siblings in a poor family.

“You could send him to a country in turmoil and get great copy,” recalled his former boss, Alvin Shuster, foreign editor of The Times from 1983 to 1995. “And then you could send him to ...

Vietnamese broken rice with lamb ribs (com tam suon cuu) is a staple meat-and-rice dish on both the streets of Vietnam and in Vietnamese-Australian households. Vietnamese broken rice with lamb ...

As a reporter with the Times from 1970 until his retirement in 2004, Mr. Lamb filed stories from more than 100 countries and several conflicts, including the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War and ...