Kim Green

Jul 10, 2024 | curetoday.com | Kim Green

I loved the month of June. As a young girl, June meant that school was out, and summer fun was to be had. Our pool was always filled with family and friends. My mom was always the perfect hostess. Until June in 1974. My beloved mom passed away from metastatic breast cancer that had only been diagnosed the month before. She was only 37 years old. I was just 12. Many Junes later, as I aged, the pain of the loss of my mother had dissipated and I learned to love June again.

Apr 25, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Chantha Nguon |Kim Green

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. Escaping the Khmer Rouge, Chantha Nguon’s family moved to Saigon, where they lived as refugees. There, restoring flavor to the drab palate of their lives felt like a tiny act of rebellion. Lemongrass-fried fish lives on as a frequent dish, a simple and exquisite homage to Nguon’s mother. When I was nine years old, in 1970, I fled Cambodia with my older brother and sisters.

Mar 2, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Chantha Nguon |Kim Green

At various critical moments throughout this remarkable memoir co-written with Kim Green, Chantha Nguon reflects on the protracted but satisfying process of preparing and cooking handmade noodles the way her mother did. You couldn’t shorten or hurry the method. If you did, the end product would betray a lazy cook in both its taste and its texture. Hence the title SLOW NOODLES, a lifelong metaphor for patience --- often unimaginably extreme patience --- amid a life of danger and uncertainty.

Feb 20, 2024 | readinggroupguides.com | Chantha Nguon |Kim Green

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and 1 wholesale extermination. Subtract a reliable source of food, life savings, and family members, until all are gone.