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Title:
Slow noodles : a Cambodian memoir of love, loss, and family recipes
Author:
Nguon, Chantha, author.
ISBN:
9781643753492
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
294 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes an epilogue written by the author's daughter, Clara Kim.
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.
Abstract:
"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.
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