Slow noodles : a Cambodian memoir of love, loss, and family recipes
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2024]
Physical Description
294 pages ; 24 cm
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"--
Notes
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.