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"From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America. In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning...
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"The eagerly awaited cookbook from Dale Talde, Top Chef favorite and owner of the acclaimed Brooklyn restaurant Talde. Born in Chicago to Filipino parents, Dale Talde grew up both steeped in his family's culinary heritage and infatuated with American fast food--burgers, chicken nuggets, and Hot Pockets. Today, his dual identity is etched on the menu at Talde, his always-packed Brooklyn restaurant. There he reimagines iconic Asian dishes, imbuing...
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"Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. From "with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan": They give the kids candy to bet. My daughter loses the first four rounds, she's a quiet wire as they take her candy away, piece by piece. When she finally wins, I ask if she wants to play again. No! she shouts, grabbing her candy, I want to go home! True...
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"From chef and food personality Ronnie Woo, a cookbook of 100 craveable all-American Asian-inspired recipes. If you were ever to visit Ronnie Woo, chef and extra-AF food personality, the first words out of his mouth would be 'did you eat, yet?'--just like how his mother would greet him. While not everyone would be so lucky to experience a Ronnie-cooked meal firsthand, or his mood-lifting humor, Did You Eat, Yet? is the next best thing, with 100 of...
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Luminous at dawn and dusk, the Mekong is a river road, a vibrant artery that defines a vast and fascinating region. Here, along the world's tenth largest river, which rises in Tibet and joins the sea in Vietnam, traditions mingle and exquisite food prevails.
Award-winning authors Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid followed the river south, as it flows through the mountain gorges of southern China, to Burma and into Laos and Thailand. For a while the...
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Sleeping Bear Press
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"Following the alphabet, poetry and expository text explain and showcase the cultural traditions and contributions of Asian Americans throughout U.S. history. Topics include traditions in food, family, and social celebrations, as well as key moments in history and milestone achievements"-- Provided by publisher.
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A memoir and cookbook from the creator of the gourmet Korean-Mexican taco truck Kogi, the star of Netflix's "The Chef Show," and the culinary advisor to Jon Favreau's film "Chef."
"Roy Choi sits at the crossroads of just about every important issue involving food in the twenty-first century. As he goes, many will follow."-Anthony Bourdain
From the maverick chef the New Yorker called "The David Chang of L.A." comes a cookbook that's as inventive,...
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In this inventive and intensely personal cookbook, the blogger behind the award-winning ladyandpups.com reveals how she cooked her way out of an untenable living situation, with more than eighty delicious Asian-inspired dishes with influences from around the world. For Mandy Lee, moving from New York to Beijing for her husband's work wasn't an exotic adventure--it was an ordeal. Growing increasingly exasperated with China's stifling political climate,...
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Bloom Books for Young Readers
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[2023]
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Brings together the holidays, traditional dress, cuisine and famous figures, including Asian American astronauts, Olympic gold medalists, inventors, artists, political leaders and more from nineteen Asian American groups.
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The cofounder and chef of the famous Mission Chinese Food restaurants in San Francisco and New York, making it his mission to find inspiration, joy, and flavor in food, presents vegan recipes geared for the home cook, keeping the emphasis on experimenting in the kitchen and big flavor.
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Noted vegans and vegetarians love Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray's food. Food Network host and author Ellie Krieger lauds their recipes as "delicious, exciting, healthful, [and] accessible for everyone," while Deborah Madison notes their-appealing recipes, good information about food and cooking in general [and] surprisingly realistic approaches to thirty-minute cooking-Now, Reinfeld and Murray turn their skillets to the East, featuring over 150...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2023.
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"Named after the simplicity and usefulness of soy, Lara Lee's new cookbook introduces 80 game-changing recipes that close the gap between classic Asian dishes and quick-to-table family meals. There are recipes that only require a little chopping and a boiled kettle, as well as 15, 30, and 45 minute meals fit for weeknight dinners or no-fuss dinner parties"-- Provided by publisher.
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Page Street Publishing Co
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2019.
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If you've always wanted to make authentic Asian fare but have been scared to try, Southeast Asian Rice and Noodle Dishes shows you how to make these meals for any time of day! Having traveled extensively around Southeast Asia specifically for this book, Abigail Sotto has come to learn, appreciate and really enjoy the rice and noodle dishes that each country has to offer. The countries she visited were Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore,...
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During the heady years of the tech boom, incorrigibly frank Sophia Young lucks into a job that puts her directly in the path of Scott Kraft, the eccentric CEO of Treehouse, a studio whose animated films are transforming movies forever. Overnight, Sophia becomes an unlikely nerd whisperer. Whether her success is due to dumb luck, savage assertiveness, insightful finesse (learned by dealing with her irrational Chinese immigrant mother), or a combination...
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Beacon Press
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2022.
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"Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century"--
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"Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How...
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Quarry
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"Inspired by the global "Subtle Asian" community, Modern Asian Baking at Home features exciting, contemporary Asian-inspired ingredients and techniques bakers of all levels will want to add to their repertoires"-- Provided by publisher.
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