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1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
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. In Stealing Buddha's Dinner. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Nguyen, Bich Minh -- Childhood and youth.
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Nguyen, Bich Minh. |
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Immigrants -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- Biography.
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Immigrants. |
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Michigan -- Grand Rapids. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Vietnamese Americans -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- Biography.
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Vietnamese Americans. |
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Americans -- Food.
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Americans. |
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Food. |
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Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781322832593 |
| ISBN |
1429554525 (electronic book) |
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9781429554527 (electronic book) |
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9781440635335 (electronic book) |
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1440635331 (electronic book) |
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142955455X (electronic book) |
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9781429554558 (electronic book) |
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