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What we hunger for : refugee and immigrant stories about food and family / edited by Sun Yung Shin

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 185 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781681341972
  • 1681341972
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction, Sun Yung Shin -- Grandma's portal, Ifrah Mansour -- Living with the dead, May Lee-Yang -- Haitian kitchen, Valérie Déus -- An unfortunate mosiac, Michael Torres -- Buy ten get one free! an open letter to Bánh Mí wannabes, Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn -- The measurements, V. V. Ganeshananthan -- "These are the plates of our lives," Senah Yeboah-Sampong -- Fragments of food memories; or, love letter to my dad, Lina Jamoul -- Mov ntse dlej, Kou B. Thao -- Beans or bullets: a feminist reading of baleadas, Roy G. Guzmán -- The summer of lao beef jerky at Rivoli, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay -- Taking langar: ancestral blueprints for mutual aid and abolition, Simi Kang -- Home is where the haleem is, Zarlasht Niaz -- Lake Superior looks like the ocean to island girls from Minnesota, Junauda Petrus-Nasah.
Summary: "Food can be a unifier and a healer, bringing people together across generations and cultures. Sharing a meal often leads to sharing stories and deepening our understanding of each other and our respective histories and practices, global and local. Newcomers to Minnesota bring their own culinary traditions and may re-create food memories at home, introduce new friends and neighbors to their favorite dishes, and explore comforting flavors and experiences of hospitality at local restaurants, community gatherings, and spiritual ceremonies. They adapt to different growing seasons and regional selections available at corner stores and farmers markets. And generations may communicate through the language of food in addition to a mix of spoken languages old and new. All of these experiences yield stories worth sharing around Minnesota cook fires, circles, and tables.In What We Hunger For, fourteen writers from refugee and immigrant families write about their complicated, poignant, funny, difficult, joyful, and ongoing relationships to food, cooking, and eating" -- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 641.5089 W555 Available 33111010522973
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 641.5089 W555 Available 33111009845401
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Eating is an intimacy bound with language, family, and migration. Travel far and near with fourteen gifted writers from immigrant and refugee families as they share their flavorful, luminous stories.

Food can be a unifier and a healer, bringing people together across generations and cultures. Sharing a meal often leads to sharing stories and deepening our understanding of each other and our respective histories and practices, global and local. Newcomers to the United States bring their own culinary traditions and may re-create food memories at home, introduce new friends and neighbors to their favorite dishes, and explore comforting flavors and experiences of hospitality at local restaurants, community gatherings, and spiritual ceremonies. People coming to Minnesota from all over the globe must adapt to different growing seasons and to the regional selections available at corner stores and farmers markets. All of these experiences yield stories worth sharing around Minnesota cook fires, circles, and tables.

In What We Hunger For, fourteen writers from refugee and immigrant families write about their complicated, poignant, funny, difficult, joyful, and ongoing relationships to food, cooking, and eating. They journey to Algeria, to Thailand, to Uganda to soothe body and mind; connect with generations past and present through rituals and recipes handed down from parent to child; and savor the flavors of home, whether creating familiar dishes in less-familiar places or coming to appreciate ancestral wisdom translated into modern foodways.

Contributors: Valérie Déus, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Roy G. Guzmán, Lina Jamoul, Simi Kang, May Lee-Yang, Ifrah Mansour, Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn, Zarlasht Niaz, Junauda Petrus-Nasah, Kou B. Thao, Michael Torres, Saymoukda D. Vongsay, and Senah Yeboah-Sampong.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Food can be a unifier and a healer, bringing people together across generations and cultures. Sharing a meal often leads to sharing stories and deepening our understanding of each other and our respective histories and practices, global and local. Newcomers to Minnesota bring their own culinary traditions and may re-create food memories at home, introduce new friends and neighbors to their favorite dishes, and explore comforting flavors and experiences of hospitality at local restaurants, community gatherings, and spiritual ceremonies. They adapt to different growing seasons and regional selections available at corner stores and farmers markets. And generations may communicate through the language of food in addition to a mix of spoken languages old and new. All of these experiences yield stories worth sharing around Minnesota cook fires, circles, and tables.In What We Hunger For, fourteen writers from refugee and immigrant families write about their complicated, poignant, funny, difficult, joyful, and ongoing relationships to food, cooking, and eating" -- Provided by publisher.

Introduction, Sun Yung Shin -- Grandma's portal, Ifrah Mansour -- Living with the dead, May Lee-Yang -- Haitian kitchen, Valérie Déus -- An unfortunate mosiac, Michael Torres -- Buy ten get one free! an open letter to Bánh Mí wannabes, Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn -- The measurements, V. V. Ganeshananthan -- "These are the plates of our lives," Senah Yeboah-Sampong -- Fragments of food memories; or, love letter to my dad, Lina Jamoul -- Mov ntse dlej, Kou B. Thao -- Beans or bullets: a feminist reading of baleadas, Roy G. Guzmán -- The summer of lao beef jerky at Rivoli, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay -- Taking langar: ancestral blueprints for mutual aid and abolition, Simi Kang -- Home is where the haleem is, Zarlasht Niaz -- Lake Superior looks like the ocean to island girls from Minnesota, Junauda Petrus-Nasah.

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