| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
294 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Nguon, Chantha.
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Political refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography.
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Women refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography.
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Cooking -- Cambodia -- Psychological aspects.
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Food -- Cambodia -- Psychological aspects.
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Cooking, Cambodian.
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Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979.
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works) (CStmoGRI)aatgf300080104
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Green, Kim (Kimberly Danielle), author.
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| Added Title |
Cambodian memoir of love, loss, and family recipes |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Nguon, Chantha. Slow noodles Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024 9781643756028 (DLC) 2023049205 |
| ISBN |
9781643753492 (hardcover) |
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1643753495 (hardcover) |
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