Bento Box in the Heartland : My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America (Paperback)

from SelimaCat

I'm a sucker for a food memoir, so I snatched this off the library's "New" shelf on a whim. It was both better and not as good as I was hoping. The good: This didn't need to be a food memoir, though the food was a powerful symbol of the author's "otherness" within the community, while underscorin...

from ValerieAndBooks

Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Linda Furiya (2006, Seal Press, an imprint of Avalon Publishing Group) is a food memoir. I bought this book about four years ago, and finally got around to reading it. Linda Furiya was born in a small, rural town in Indiana...

from teresat

What a wonderful book told by Linda Furiya and her story as a Japenese american growing up in rural Versailles, Indianna. She put recipes throughout the book and called it a food memoir. It was not a quick read but good.