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Slow Noodles (Chantha Nguon) - HardcoverA haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMONDTake a well fed nine year old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and 1 wholesale extermination. Subtract a reliable source of food, life savings, and family
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND
Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and 1 wholesale extermination. Subtract a reliable source of food, life savings, and family members, until all are gone. Shave down childhood dreams for approximately two decades, until only subsistence remains.
In Slow Noodles, Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodian refugee who loses everything and everyone—her home, her family, her country—all but the remembered tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen. She summons the quiet rhythms of 1960s Battambang, her provincial hometown, before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart and killed more than a million Cambodians, many of them ethnic Vietnamese like Nguon and her family. Then, as an immigrant in Saigon, Nguon loses her mother, brothers, and sister and eventually flees to a refugee camp in Thailand. For two decades in exile, she survives by cooking in a brothel, serving drinks in a nightclub, making and selling street food, becoming a suture nurse, and weaving silk.
Nguon’s irrepressible spirit and determination come through in this lyrical memoir that includes more than twenty family recipes such as sour chicken-lime soup, green papaya pickles, and pâté de foie, as well as Khmer curries, stir-fries, and handmade bánh canh noodles. Through it all, re-creating the dishes from her childhood becomes an act of resistance, of reclaiming her place in the world, of upholding the values the Khmer Rouge sought to destroy, and of honoring the memory of her beloved mother, whose “slow noodles” approach to healing and cooking prioritized time and care over expediency.
Slow Noodles is an inspiring testament to the power of food to keep alive a refugee’s connection to her past and spark hope for a beautiful life.
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My dog loves to chew on these wooden toys. These are cheap to buy but that is because these wooden toys do not last long, and are not durable for heavy chewers. My dog enjoys gnawing on these for 30 minutes and after a few times, the wooden toy gets worn down with both ends starting to flake. I throw these out every week so he isn’t swallowing a bunch of wooden chips as he chews. However, I keep buying these because I think it’s still better than having him swallowing plastic bits from other plastic toys.
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Color: Dogwood Flip N Chew, Size: Medium (Pack of 1), Color: Dogwood Flip N Chew, Size: Medium (Pack of 1)
I have 2 large dogs and they are obsessed with dogwood line. I have purchased the large,super dogwood, and now the medium flip and they have all held up. They chew on them every day. They last for a long time and I have never had any problems with sharp pieces breaking off. It's a great for big chewers and they are pretty cheap to replace when they get worn. For the large and medium the shipping was pretty quick. The super dogwood always seems to take a month to get but I would still recommend.
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This lasted. My dog goes through rawhides.
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