Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Name: Stealing Buddha's Dinner
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ISBN: 9780670038329

ISBN-10: 0670038326

ISBN-13: 9780670038329

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bich Minh Nguyen, Bich Nguyen

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A vivid, funny, and viscerally powerful memoir about childhood, assimilation, food, and growing up in the 1980s As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bich Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. In the pre-PC era Midwest, where the devoutly Christian blond-haired, blue-eyed Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme, Nguyens barely conscious desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic seeming than her Buddhist grandmothers traditional specialtiesspring rolls, delicate pancakes stuffed with meats, fried shrimp cakesthe campy, preservative-filled delicacies of mainstream America capture her imagination. And in this…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.86" wide x 8.52" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 0.792

Bich Minh Nguyen is the author of the memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner. She teaches at Purdue University and lives in Chicago and West Lafayette.




Pringles



Forbidden Fruit



Dairy Cone



Fast Food Asian



Toll House Cookies



School Lunch



American Meat



Green Sticky Rice Cakes



Down with Grapes



Bread and Honey



Salt Pork



Holiday Tamales



Stealing Buddha's Dinner



Ponderosa



Mooncakes



Cha Gio


Author's Note


Acknowledgments