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Stealing Buddha's dinner : a memoir / Bich Minh Nguyen.

Van Pelt Library CT275.N523 A3 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Nguyen, Beth.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Nguyen, Beth--Childhood and youth.
Nguyen, Beth.
Immigrants--Michigan--Grand Rapids--Biography.
Immigrants.
Vietnamese Americans--Michigan--Grand Rapids--Biography.
Vietnamese Americans.
Americans--Food.
Americans.
Food.
Grand Rapids (Mich.)--Biography.
Grand Rapids (Mich.).
Michigan--Grand Rapids.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
256 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Viking, 2007.
Summary:
In this viscerally powerful memoir, Nguyen pens a nostalgic, candid account of growing up as a Vietnamese girl in the Midwest in the 1980s, and using popular American food--from Pringles potato chips to Toll House cookies--as a way to fit in and become a RrealS American.
Contents:
1 Pringles 1
2 Forbidden Fruit 17
3 Dairy Cone 31
4 Fast Food Asian 45
5 Toll House Cookies 61
6 School Lunch 73
7 American Meat 85
8 Green Sticky Rice Cakes 95
9 Down with Grapes 117
10 Bread and Honey 131
11 Salt Pork 149
12 Holiday Tamales 165
13 Stealing Buddha's Dinner 179
14 Ponderosa 197
15 Mooncakes 221
16 Cha Gio 239.
ISBN:
0670038326
OCLC:
71237477
Publisher Number:
9780670038329

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