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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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