Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America - Paperback
by Linda Furiya
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Seal Press (CA)ISBN-13:9781580051910ISBN-10:158005191XUPC:9781580051910Book Category:CookingBook Subcategory:Regional & Ethnic, Essays & NarrativesBook Topic:JapaneseAward:2007 Great Lakes Book Awards Nominee - General AwardSize:8.16 x 5.58 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCCRBDECTE
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America
While growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern America with the Japanese traditions of her home life.
As the only Asian family in a tiny township, Furiya's life revolved around Japanese food and the extraordinary lengths her parents went to in order to gather the ingredients needed to prepare it. As immigrants, her parents...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Seal Press (CA)ISBN-13:9781580051910ISBN-10:158005191XUPC:9781580051910Book Category:CookingBook Subcategory:Regional & Ethnic, Essays & NarrativesBook Topic:JapaneseAward:2007 Great Lakes Book Awards Nominee - General AwardSize:8.16 x 5.58 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCCRBDECTE
Linda Furiya hails from Versailles, Indiana and graduated from Purdue University. She soon moved to San Francisco where she discovered her love of writing and felt emboldened by the Asian American community. She began writing about ethnicity and food in 1992 when she wrote a syndicated monthly column titles, "From Where I Stand," for San Francisco's Nichibei Times, Los Angeles' Rafu Shimpo,...
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
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🏆 2007 Great Lakes Book Awards Nominee - General Award
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