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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Book cover for Slow Noodles by Chantha Nguon, featuring a black background and the title in red lettering. Around the cover different ingredients are silhouetted in cream, such as leeks, chilies, fish, eggplant, and thick noodles.

I listened to Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon and Kim Green, upon the recommendation of a friend, and it was well worth reading, despite the sometimes difficult subject matter. Nguon, born in 1962 in Cambodia to an ethnically Vietnamese mother and Khmer father, had a happyContinue reading “Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes”