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Title Statement | Slow noodles: a Cambodian memoir of love, loss, and family recipes / Chantha Nguon ; with Kim Green. |
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Author | Nguon, Chantha |
Additional Contributors | Green, Kim(Kimberly Danielle) |
Publication | Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,2024. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 294 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781643753492 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07322533 |
General Notes | Includes an epilogue written by the author's daughter, Clara Kim. Includes recipes. |
Contents | Prologue --Part I. Young rice is fleeting --Soft like pâté de foie --House of rice --Chicken-lime soup for the village soul --Farewell to fish amok --Part II. The rules for ration queues --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 --Part III. Restocking the Khmer pantry --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"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Cooking--Psychological aspects--Cambodia |
Food--Psychological aspects--Cambodia | |
Political refugees--Biography--Cambodia | |
Women refugees--Biography--Cambodia | |
By Name | Nguon, Chantha |
By Location | Cambodia--History--1975-1979 |
By Genre | Recipes |
Biographies | |
Autobiographies | |
Personal narratives |