Slow Noodles
A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 294 pages ; 24 cm
"Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Soft Like Pâté de Foie -- House of Rice -- Chicken-Lime Soup for the Village Soul -- Farewell to Fish Amok -- Fish Soup Lessons -- With a Side of Cassava -- Silken Rebellion Fish Fry -- Chanthu's Tofu Venture -- Mae's Memory Lunches -- A Failed Sugar Smuggler -- Khmer Noodles, Battambang Style -- Kuy Teav Is Eternal -- Land-Mine Chicken -- The Life Aquatica -- No Thanks for the Frog Soup -- Instant Noodles -- Rice and Golden Mountain -- The Elephant Fish.
Subjects:
Nguon, Chantha.
Political refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography.
Women refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography.
Cooking -- Cambodia -- Psychological aspects.
Food -- Cambodia -- Psychological aspects.
Cooking, Cambodian.
Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979.
Nguon, Chantha.
Political refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography.
Women refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography.
Cooking -- Cambodia -- Psychological aspects.
Food -- Cambodia -- Psychological aspects.
Cooking, Cambodian.
Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979.
ISBN:
9781643753492
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Nguon, Chantha | Main (Downtown) | Biography | Out (Due: 5/10/2024) |
BIOGRAPHY Nguon, Chantha | Main (Downtown) | New - First Level, Biography | Out (Due: 5/9/2024) |
BIOGRAPHY Nguon, Chantha | Sandhills Indoors | New, Biography | Out (Due: 5/18/2024) |
Includes an epilogue written by the author's daughter, Clara Kim.