Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Furiya, Linda
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Furiya, Linda

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...
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Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Furiya, Linda

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

$41.70
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Furiya, Linda

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

$41.70
Author: Linda Furiya
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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.



Author: Linda Furiya
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: 12/21/2006
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.58w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781580051910


Award: Great Lakes Book Awards - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/04/2006 pg. 46
Booklist 01/01/2007 pg. 44
Library Journal 04/01/2007 pg. 112
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001

About the Author
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, Sacramento's Nikkei West, Seattle's Northewest Nikkei and Montreal Canada's Montreal Bulletin.

Linda's freelance writing experience spans fourteen years and includes food and travel articles published in various newspapers and other periodical such as Asainweek, South China Morning Post, Kikkoman's Chef Forum and Silkroad, a publication on Dragon Airlines. Since 2000, Linda has been writing a monthly column in the food section of the San Francisco Chronicle.

The author has completed culinary training at Meilong Zheng cooking school, a local program focusing on Shanghainese cuisine and currently lives in Shelburne, Vermont with her son and wire hair dachshund, Oscar where teaches Japanese and Chinese cooking.

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