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Slow noodles a Cambodian memoir of love, loss, and family recipes

"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 countr...

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Main Authors: Nguon, Chantha (Author), Green, Kim (Kimberly Danielle) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Nguon, Chantha.
Political refugees > Cambodia > Biography.
Women refugees > Cambodia > Biography.
Cooking > Cambodia > Psychological aspects.
Food > Cambodia > Psychological aspects.
Cooking, Cambodian.
Cambodia > History > 1975-1979.
Autobiographies.
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Table of 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.

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