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Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir
Bich Minh Nguyen
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| #26305 in Books | Nguyen, Bich Minh | 2008-01-29 | 2008-01-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.50 x5.10l,.40 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | Stealing Buddha s Dinner A Memoir||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A cultural insight for Gen Y|By Yuki Yamamoto|I'm not quite finished reading this book yet, but it's been quite a joy discovering historic perspectives in an area I have never been to in this country. Although each Asian culture has different practices with our food, offering a gift, such as a fresh fruit, to the alter and later on receive it back for us to eat is much the sam|From Publishers Weekly|Nguyen was just eight months old when her father brought her and her sister out of Vietnam in 1975. The family relocated in Michigan, where young Bich (pronounced "bit") wrestled with conflicting desires for her grandmother's native cookin
As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic- seeming than her Buddhist grandmother's traditional specialties, the campy, preservative-filled "delicacies" of mainstream America capture her imagination.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir | Bich Minh Nguyen. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
