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Slow noodles : a Cambodian memoir of love, loss, and family recipes / Chantha Nguon with Kim Green.

Nguon, Chantha, (author.). Green, Kim (Kimberly Danielle), (author.).

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 madebefore the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781643753492
ISBN: 1643753495
Physical Description: 294 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes an epilogue written by the author's daughter, Clara Kim.

Formatted Contents Note:

Soft Like PAatae 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.