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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Bento Box in the Heartland Subtitle: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America

Bento Box in the Heartland Subtitle: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America

Furiya, Linda

Paperback

Biographies GeneralFood WritingJapanese Cooking

ISBN10: 158005191X
ISBN13: 9781580051910
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: Dec 21 2006
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.16
Language: English
Awards: Great Lakes Book Awards
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 approached the challenges of living in America, and maintaining their Japanese diets, with optimism and gusto. Furiva, meanwhile, was acutely aware of how food set her apart from her peers: She spent her first day of school hiding in the girls' restroom, examining her rice balls and chopsticks, and longing for a Peanut Bullter and Jelly sandwich. Bento Box in the Heartland is an insightful and reflective coming-of-age tale.

Beautifully written, each chapter is accompanied by a family recipe of mouth-watering Japanese comfort food.

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